filleted

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

filleted

  1. simple past and past participle of fillet

Adjective[edit]

filleted (comparative more filleted, superlative most filleted)

  1. (UK, slang) Gutted; very disappointed or let down.
    • quoted in 2017, Edward Couzens-Lake, Norwich City The Nineties
      He'd had enough, later admitting to Rick Waghorn in his excellent book 12 Canary Greats:
      I was filleted to be honest. It had taken its toll on me ... I'd probably had enough myself by that time in terms of being manager.

References[edit]

  • Tony Thorne (2014) “filleted”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  []: Bloomsbury