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Jessicamessica
Hi everyone!
Hoe can I interesting call a drink to make this sentence more emphatic and to show that the quality of this sh** is very low?
"Hey, you call this * a drink?"
What word would you use instead of "*"? I'm thinking of 'hogwash'.
Thanks!
Jun 10, 2022 8:32 PM
Answers · 4
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I would say "you call this crap a drink". To sensor myself a bit.
June 10, 2022
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Hi!
I'm from Australia, and we use a more vulgar form of english in common speech. It would be common to say something like:
..you call this horse-p*ss a drink?
..you call this sh*t a drink?
Amongst my friends, any combination of "animal + p*ss" would work.
For something less rude or vulgar, you could go try: 'swill'.
You call this "swill" a drink?
(swill: kitchen refuse and scraps of waste food mixed with water for feeding to pigs.)
We would typically insert a simple cuss-word into it, but also it's un
June 10, 2022
The possibilities are endless. Here are a few that make no mention of animal excrement:
dish water
stagnant puddle
slosh
ooze
motor oil
mucus
slime
vomit
regurgitated fish
June 11, 2022
I'm thinking that 'swill' would be a polite, inoffensive, replacement. From Merriam-Webster; swill: something suggestive of slop or garbage : refuse. 2 a : a semiliquid food for animals (such as swine) composed of edible refuse mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk. b : garbage.
June 11, 2022
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