roastie
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From roast + -ie. The Internet slang sense likens a (promiscuous) woman's vulva to the filling of a roast beef sandwich.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊsti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊsti/
Noun
[edit]roastie (plural roasties)
- (slang) A roast potato.
- 2008, Becky Thorn, School Dinners:
- My dad made crispy, rough-edged roasties lovingly cooked in beef dripping but I perversely much preferred the drier, soak-up-the-gravy ones we had at school.
- 2013, Niven Govinden, Graffiti My Soul, page 64:
- […] I keep quiet when Billie piles the roasties on my plate, scoffing everything put in front of me.
- 2015, Patricia Scanlan, Mirror, Mirror:
- Miriam gave a squawk of dismay as she lifted the lid off the potatoes.
'How are the roasties doing?'
- (slang) A roast beef sandwich.
- (vulgar, derogatory, incel slang) A woman, especially a promiscuous one.
- 2019, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, unnumbered page:
- “Shut the fuck up roastie,” wrote anonymous Twitter users with anime images as their avatars.
- 2019, S. J. Maher, Social Misconduct[1], page 151:
- Defy me and you will regret it, roastie.
- 2020, Anne Hendershott, The Politics of Envy, unnumbered page:
- […] and "Stacy" denotes an attractive "roastie," a promiscuous young woman.