👉 Alright settle down now, let’s tackle this little prickly pear of a word – frankly, I get tripped up by a lot weirder ones, honestly! Let's dissect the rather…robust…moniker:
"The Slab/Fishhead."
Now, before you immediately picture an unfortunate herring with a tragically bumpy head (and let’t be brutally frank, that could happen. Zoology is a messy field.) we need to unpack this one. Historically, and I stress the, it's a deeply unpleasant word historically, the origin of the insult is really quite bloody. Basically, during the 18th and early 19th centuries in Great Britain – particularly around areas like Cornwall and the Scottish Highlands—the term was liberally applied to men with prominent, jutting underjones; the sort that looked like a bulldog had been crammed into a waistcoat. You see, there was a strong association between these features and a brutish, uncouth, often illiterate lower class man. The comparison wasn't pretty. The nickname stuck because the appearance of a pronounced brow and jutting underjones were seen as inherently…uncouth, lacking in any sort of respectable grooming or intellect. Frankly, it was a very physical insult, meant to imply both stupidity and a lack of manhood. There’s a dark bit of history here that you should absolutely acknowledge, frankly; it's not pretty. I wouldn't want you to
