You make me sick! Get out of here! Kiss my ass! Fuck you! Some British publishers have entries for it, but they give no literal definition, saying only how the phrase is used. Help support the Grammarphobia Blog with your donation. And check out our books about the English language. Enter your email address to subscribe to the Blog by email. If you are an old subscriber and not getting posts, please subscribe again. Email Address. Enter your email address to subscribe to the blog by email.
Close Menu Home. The Books. Woe Is I. Swan Song. Note: not considered especially vulgar, but usually considered inappropriate in more formal settings.
Cambridge Online Dictionary tells us how to use it:. The Wiki Answers site explains this in rather vivid detail, of which a portion is:. They told their friends that they would like to tell Mr. I can confirm that this really is the sense of term from 40 years ago.
It somewhat surprises me that people now no longer connect it to its vulgar roots. Meaning and usage as described by Third Idiot, but I always understood it to be short for bite my crank that is, for suck my cock — intended in a demeaning way, but its usage may have softened over time. Here is an article on the subject that offers some insight. Apparently bite it is the originating term, along with eat it , and, where a location for the snack is specified, it does seem to be in the posterior region, though not exclusively so.
The Urban Dictionary also suggests that it is a minced oath for blow me , but they offer no supporting documentation. This phrase was used by the girls to each other in that vein. When any two girls got into a hot fight it was like saying eat my cunt. Heard it all the time since , but the guys used it much more often. This was in the Chicago area. The basic meaning I see is "Deal with it," as in "I have the upper hand, and you can't do a thing against what I'm doing.
The implication is not just a rude "suck my dick" thing which is used as a more generic expletive. It implies you are already the sucker , and the most you can do about it is to bite. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Meaning and usage of "bite me" Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 5 months ago. Active 4 years, 3 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Vamsi Emani Vamsi Emani 1, 4 4 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. You didn't have to write it like an epistle! My shiny metal I found another Shakespeare ref for you; v.
How's that a dilemma? Shouldn't someone have ended their answer with "If you don't like my answer, bite me! Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Here is according to Wikipedia : Bite me is typically used as a US idiomatic expression of discontent or annoyance with another party According to the Online Slang Dictionary : a command, similar to "Go to hell!
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