👉 Okay, settle in class. Let’s tackle a little linguistic weirdness today - we’re dissecting the frankly rather prickly, somewhat aggressively-sounding…
"rockrock."
Now, before you immediately picture a geologist wrestling with a stubborn boulder (though honestly? You might not be far off conceptually, it's got that dogged persistence vibe), let me lay out what this actually means. Historically and geographically, rockrock was a Newfoundland, specifically Goose Bay, Banks Sound, and Labradorian English term. Essentially, it meant, quite bluntly, to fuck something seriously shit. You know? To absolutely ruin it. Think of the worst possible thing that could happen to your precious vintage record, or the most spectacularly failed soufflé you've ever witnessed. You would rockrock it. What made it so… visceral was its sheer, unvarnished wastefulness and contempt. It wasn't a delicate fuck around. There’s no coy euphemism here, no pretty phrasing. Just an outright declaration that something is now a spectacular, utter, and frankly depressing failure. You basically said the thing had been absolutely rockrocked . The origin of this term isn’t exactly pretty either. It's thought to have arisen from early cod-leggin’ tough guys in the area. And honestly? I won't bore you with a full breakdown, let’s just say that Newfoundland winters are long and hard
