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No need to dive into Dutch, "cancer" as a slang word to describe something that just sucks and is very annoying has been mainstream for quite many years in Engl
by filoleg 4y ago
No need to dive into Dutch, "cancer" as a slang word to describe something that just sucks and is very annoying has been mainstream for quite many years in English. At least online and in the cities I've lived in, on both west and east coast of the US. And yes, there is a wiktionary entry for it as well[0].
Your dismissal of the user making the comparison to Dutch was straight up silly. It was based on nothing but you not being able to see the point they were trying to make at all. And their point would stand even if "cancer" was't an extremely commonplace slang term in English.
0. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cancer#Adjective https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cancer#Adjective