Jagoff

Jagoff vel jag-off est vocabulum indignum Americanum ex lingua Anglica Pittsburgensi, hominem stupidum vel ineptum significans.Barbara Johnstone,  "American Varieties: Steel Town Speak,"] Do You Speak American? (PBS). Quod saepissime in regionibus Pittsburgi et Pennsylvaniae Occidentalis auditur.Pittsburgh Speech & Society Dictionary (University Library System, University of Pittsburgh)."Pennsylvania," in Dictionary of American Regional English (Cantabrigiae Massachusettae: Harvard University Press). Liber Dictionary of American Regional English vocabulum definit 'generalem obtrectationis appellationem'.Anglice: "general term of disparagement.""D," in Dictionary of American Regional English (Cantabrigiae Massachusettae: Harvard University Press). Habent hoc omnino incolae Pittsburgi, inter exsules Pittsburgenses affectum benigne nostalgicum eliciens.Rebecca Sodergren, "Ex-Pittsburghers are hungry for Pittsburgh," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3 Iulii 2012.

Secundum Barbaram Johnstone, professorem Anglicae et linguisticae in Universitate Carnegie Mellon,Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University, "Barbara Johnstone, Professor of English and Linguistics." vocabulum in insulis Britannicis septentrionalibus ortum est, in regione quae multos advenas ad Pittsburgum praebuit. Deducitur a verbo to jag, quod 'fodicare, pungere' significat. Johnstone dixit, "Nemo putat haec derivata a jag obscena esse."Anglice: "Nobody thinks of these derivatives of 'jag' as obscene."

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