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Hoddie

Hoddie referred to people who were going around looking like gangs wearing hooded tops, baseball caps, clothing which deliberately obscured the face, suggesting that the wearer might be a danger to the public, so much so that baseball caps and hooded topswere actually banned in 2005 at one shopping mall in Britain. The linguistics isn’t so controversial. The spelling first ofall, ‘hoody’, or ‘hoodie’, and more often with the ‘ie’ than not. That’s because it’s the usual familiarity marker that you get on lots of words in English, words like sweetie, auntie,daddie and others.

Get a Life

This familiar old noun ‘life’, now used widely in the phrase ‘get a life!’, usually in a derogatory tone of voice like that ‘Get a life, why don’t you!’ Well, it’s said to somebody who the speaker feels is leading an unfulfilling existence, your life is empty, dull, there’s more to life than what
you’re doing, start living! It can be serious, but it’s usually jocular. It can be used for instance to a workaholic, or for anybody obsessed with something like a television programme, always watching a particular soap, shall we say. That person might be told to ‘get a life’.

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