cocksplat

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compound of cock +‎ splat. Popularized by a 2016 tweet calling former US president Donald Trump a "witless fucking cocksplat" (see quotation below).

Noun[edit]

cocksplat (plural cocksplats)

  1. (vulgar, derogatory) A contemptible person.
    • 2012 July 6, @flutterbyplant, Twitter[1], archived from the original on 1 October 2023:
      he's such a cocksplat. I'd like to meet him in a dark alley. Kick him sharply in the shins.
    • 2016 June 24, @CulturalSnow, Twitter[2], archived from the original on 1 October 2023:
      SCOTLAND VOTED TO STAY, YOU WITLESS FUCKING COCKSPLAT!
    • 2019, John Galligan, Bad Axe County: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 52:
      "So this is the cocksplat who punched him, if he ever crosses the path of Denise 'Thunder Thighs' Halverson."
    • 2022 January 21, Tim Miller, “The Limitations of "Norm" Talk”, in The Bulwark[3], archived from the original on 2023-05-31:
      It is unclear why my opposition to that witless cocksplat means I have to give full-throated support to the current Senate cloture rules lest I run afoul of the pundit-consistency mandate.

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