![]() ![]() ![]() Gaou can differ among residents of the same locale.Īsif Aha, “Tropes of Branding in Forms of Life” ( Signs and Society), 2015 The same locale, and even the criteria by which someone can be formulated as Identities) that enable status ranking even among persons who live in 2017Īnd although most dictionaries still label this word as ‘slang’ or ‘informal,’ there is increasing evidence of it beginning to be used outside of these confines.īut since anyone can be likened to such personae, whether praisedĪs yere or dissed as gaou, these terms formulate geosocial tropes (not localebound Jackie Epstein and Nui Te Koha, The Herald Sun (Melbourne, Aus.), 23 Oct. Griffin also dissed movie star Hugh Jackman and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Barbara Ellen, The Observer (London, UK), 15 Oct. No amount of free festive booze could soother the wounded hearts of dissed hacks, though there have been many willing to take up the challenge. The word has had a meteoric rise, moving within a few decades from highly regionalized to global use. Given that dis came from African-American vernacular use, and was often found in the dialect of youth (two areas which have frequently been overlooked in linguistic examination), it is notable that we have mainstream writing about the word as early as we do. B.), The Admirable History of the Possession and Conversion of a Penitent Woman Seduced by a Magician that Made her to become a Witch, 1613 …and that the calling of this wretch (meaning her that had the diuels in her bodie, to wit, Louyse de Cappeau) had been debased and exposed to derision, as also dishonoured and disrespected by the diuels, who would haue waded further into these aduantages, if they might be suffered. ![]() Pierre Du Moulin, A Defence of the Catholicke Faith, 1610 We must not in honour of God, adore the creature with honour equalling the worship of God for in seeking thus to honour God, we shall dishonour him reproach him by such worship by such respect disrespect him neglect him by such seruice…. The longer form of the word, disrespect, is not itself new, with use dating back to the early 17th century. 1985ĭis had begun being used as a transitive verb some time prior to the above citations the earliest citation found in The Oxford English Dictionary references Spoonie Gee’s 1979 Spoonin’ Rap, and spoken use would certainly have preceded this by a number of years. Wayne Robins, Newsday, (Long Island, NY), 20 Oct. Then there’s ‘dis’ as in ‘don’t dis me in front of everybody.’ I said, what? Dish? They said, don’t you know what ‘dis’ is? Disrespect” “Like ‘def’ which is is short for ‘deft’ (or ‘definitely), which means cool or great or anything that’s really terrific. ”There are a lot of words that are abbreviations of first syllables,” Schultz said. The host of the weekly rap music show “Breakers Delight” on WDCU-FM, Rodriguez said that after years of being disrespected or “dissed” by listeners who preferred homegrown go-go music to “all that New York stuff,” rapping has finally caught on. A 1988 compilation of “contemporary terms” published in The Los Angeles Times offered up “Dissed (to get) - to get put down, ‘disrespected.’” In subsequent articles the word was often defined as part of the story. The word dis (occasionally spelled diss) found itself widely explicated in the 1980s, frequently glossed in newspapers in lists of slang or in articles on the then-new phenomenon of rap music. ![]() One early citation is Spoonie Gee's 'Spoonin Rap.' ![]()
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