(11-17-2015, 05:16 PM)Kage Wrote: I used the phrases more out of the idea that some words are apparently seen "out of place" so by extension those phrases. What about "I'll have to pass." ?
Some variations I believe I've seen in-game were "pissing" or "piss off" or "bugger off"
I haven't come up with anything on "I'll have to pass" or "bugger off," but the angry usage of "piss off," and "pissed off," seems to have come about in US army regiments during World War II, according to multiple sources.
"Pissed" meaning "drunk" came about in 1929, according to this, while "pissed" meaning "angry" was an abbreviation of "pissed-off" that came about in 1971.
EDIT: This book actually has an entry on Bugger Off. The date it gives is 1922. Bugger itself is cited as appearing in 1555, though under a very different usage than what we mean today. "Bugger" is not cited to refer to an undesireable or lowly person until 1719, and is not cited to be used as an expletive until 1923. This is seemly corroborated by Slang and Its Analogues Volume 1, which as of its publishing in 1890, has no expletive definition for Bugger.
SECOND EDIT: This book also cites the earliest usage of Fuck to mean "damaged beyond repair" (i.e. "You fucked it up!") as being 1775, in the UK. Another interesting curiosity.
