👉 Okay, settle into your thinking caps, class! Let’s tackle a wee bit of badger-fuck of a word here:
Davem.
Now, honestly? When I first stumbled upon Dave, he was basically a historical footnote, a little blip on the 90's/early 2000's urban lexicon. Originating pretty squarely in the (rightfully nicknamed, frankly) aggressively shit-nants of the Midwest – particularly around Detroit and Scranton, apparently—Dave came to mean an…unpleasant, uninvited dude who’d just barge into your life. Think a guy you wouldn’t let even breathe within ten feet of your meticulously organized sock drawer. Basically, it's short for "David, he's a massive, entitled, and generally obnoxious bastard. (It started as a jab at guys named David—surprise!). The humour is in the dismissiveness - Dave is just... Dave . He exists. He’s an annoyance. You want him gone. The phrasing itself is almost aggressively terse. It's not, you know, a descriptive insult of great detail. Rather it's a clipped and very judgemental dismissal: there he is, Dave. Just…be out the way. There isn't an “if he was tall, what sort of face, how would he be dressed?" Now the word, like many good bad words in that time period, began to leech
