Monday 30 June 2014

Dangleface

Dangleface: noun. Dangleface is a very offensive insult (or an insulting offence if you will) that is used to humiliate old people, fat people, people with stretchy skin and certain types of goats. Certainly, dangleface is a quite logical insult to the afore mentioned types of humans but less so to the goats. While some goats may have dangly faces, not many goats do, which is why some linguists have conjectured that the term dangleface was extended to goats because of the wattles that are present in some of their species. This explanation has its flaws though, especially considering that though wattles do dangle, they do not grow on the face but on the neck. Another issue that others have taken with this theory is that it does not explain why this insult has never been applied to other animals possessing wattles such as chicken, cassowaries and Lithuanian pigs. 

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