Grown arsed

[HauntedBungalow]

I don't think this particular phrase works. The American English version is fine, kind of sassy. But the UK version is clunky and unsavoury.

Please can we stop using it? Thank you.

I have never heard or seen it before you started this thread

Really?

Oh well I do live a life rich in experience.

Same

I can't believe people haven't come across it on tv, books, on social media etc.

Maybe too busy hiding behind the sofa.

What is the American English version?
I've never heard the expression.

I like it and find it very expressive. I will probably continue to use it.

Then I will shun and avoid you.

I can take that. I'm a grown arsed woman. 🤣

"Grown ass".

Like I say, sassy, finger clicky, swishy hair. Clueless throwback vibes.

But the UK version ... no. Arse can never be those things.

Oh! I must be stupid not realising it was that 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yeah, not an expression I would use however it was pronounced.

So I'm American and I do regularly say, "I'm a grown-ass woman". I say it to my kids a lot when they ask why I'm allowed to do things they aren't, lol.

I've never heard an English person say it, and judging from the bemused reaction I get when I say it, they haven't heard the American version before either!

Oh how I wish that nobody in England had heard it. But, sadly, they have. And they have ruined it with arse.

Never heard of it. But I avoid anything American for precisely this reason.

Because you will ruin it with arse?

I love to use grown assed man.

He / she can make Their own choices they are a grown assed man/women.

it fits.

Grown Arse works as a noun but it doesn't become an adjective nor past tense so grown arsed doesn't work.

And just how, exactly, does grown arse work as a noun?

Exactly.

Assed. Not arsed.

I don't think any of us are arsed really.

I didn't click either until you posted the American version. Ive obviously heard that loads but have never heard the British grown arsed , it sounds ridiculous!

To be clear, arse/arsed does work in multiple scenarios and morphs well from the original ass.

Eg asshole = arsehole. Very good, no problems there.

Shove it up your ass/arse. Great. Almost interchangeable, seamless really.

But grown ass. No. That's an American thing; it's for them alone. Once you put an arse in, it doesn't work the same.

Yes, it really does!

But, people are doing it. They must be stopped.

Half arsed - yes
Half assed - no
Can't be arsed - yes
Can't be assed - no
😂

I deliberately avoided "can't be arsed/assed" because then we'd be getting into can be/can't be minutiae and it's only one thread.

Lord forbid if we strayed to "can't be fucked".