19 June 2016

skeeve

[skeev] Slang.

noun

1. Also, skeever. an immoral or repulsive person.
verb (used with object)
2. to cause disgust in (often followed by out):
This place is so full of mold that it really skeeves me out.
3. to be disgusted by:
people who skeeve public restrooms.
verb (used without object)
4. to cause disgust or feel disgusted:
The mess just made me skeeve.

Origin of skeeve

back formation from skeevy (not respectable, immoral, slovenly, disgusting, repulsive)
1975-80; probably < Italian schifo ‘disgust’ + -y1

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Today’s quote

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

– Charles Bukowski

On this day

19 June 1623 – birth of Blaise Pascal, controversial French mathematician, physicist, inventor and writer. Formulated ‘Pascal’s Triangle’, a tabular presentation for binomial coefficients, challenged Aristotle’s followers who claimed that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’. The computer programming language, ‘Pascal’, is named in his honour.

19 June 1945 – birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, activist and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient.

19 June 1978 – The original Grumpy Cat, Garfield, first appears in newspaper comic strips in the USA.