👉 Okay, alright settle down class! Let’s tackle this… rather prickly piece of vernacular - frankly, I feel a little like I just stuck my hand into a badger sett when I hear the word, honestly. Now, what exactly is meant by saying something is, let's say... "spiny tailed"?
Basically, in contemporary, somewhat aggressively youthful slang (think late teens and early twenties who probably spend too long browsing the internet and arguing on fringe subreddits), "spiny tailed 6-’bout that nigga/dude/guy. You won't find it in a respectable thesaurus! It is, in reality, a very emphatic way of describing someone you find profoundly, almost aggressively, unlikeable. Think of your most intensely irritated acquaintance, the one whose entire personality seems calibrated to mildly offend you, and then picture that individual sporting a frankly obnoxious, bristling set of… well, apparent prickliness. There's no literal reference to actual tails here! We aren’t describing a porcupine, unfortunately, unless we are joking about someone’s bad behaviour. The descriptor implies a defensive, almost aggressive unpleasantness. It suggests that the person being described is radiating an aura of barely contained disapproval and a whole lotta judgement. The origin? Honestly? No one quite knows, it seems to have sprung up in certain online communities as a way to shorthand that feeling of absolute "ugh, here he/she goes again
