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hard-assery

hard-assery noun: the quality of being a hard-ass (a tough and combative person).

Noun

hard-assery (uncountable)

  1. (vulgar) The quality of being a hard-ass (a tough and combative person).
    • The Dallas RNC was a festival of Cold War hard-assery.2011 December 23, Julia Barton, “I miss hating the Soviet Union”, in Salon.com, San Francisco, C.A.: Salon.com, LLC., →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2023
    • They'd had two hours together last night. The Junior Cert was coming and her mam and dad were see-sawing between hardassery and judicial lenience, and on this occasion the lever had come down in her favour.2013, Lisa McInerney, “Saturday, Boring”, in Kevin Barry, editor, Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 47

Forms of hard-assery

alternative formhardassery

Origin of hard-assery

From hard-ass + -ery.

Questions about hard-assery

What does hard-assery mean?
Hard-assery means the quality of being a hard-ass (a tough and combative person).
What part of speech is hard-assery?
Hard-assery is a noun.

Words near hard-assery in the dictionary

  1. hard-and-fast
  2. hard-arse
  3. hard-arses
  4. hard-ass
  5. hard-assed
  6. hard-assery
  7. hard-asses
  8. hard-bill
  9. hard-bills
  10. hard-bitten
  11. hard-block

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