to be a scrote
- idiom
- Offensive
:
ser un cabrón
- Stop being a scrote and let your brother borrow your bike.
Examples
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If you're just going to be a scrote, don't bother coming to the meeting.
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Don't be a scrote and ignore your friends!
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He tends to be a scrote when people ask him for help.
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He can sometimes be a scrote when he doesn't get his way.
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It's frustrating when you decide to be a scrote instead of helping your teammates.
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She really shouldn't be a scrote just because things aren't going her way.
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Whenever he chooses to be a scrote, it affects everyone around him.
Synonyms
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9.9
Behave rudely and selfishly, ignoring other people's feelings
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9.9
Act in a rude, foolish way that annoys or upsets other people
To act in a rude and unhelpful way
To treat other people rudely and think only about yourself
Act in a rude, unkind way toward other people
To behave very rudely and make other people angry or upset
Behave in a very rude and insulting way to other people
Behave rudely and selfishly and annoy other people
To behave in a very foolish and rude way
Antonyms
How Rude
Surface Forms
Morphology
be + a + scrote
This is a regular predicative construction (be + a + noun) where the MWE meaning simply equals ‘to be [a scrote]’ — i.e. to behave like the person denoted by the noun. The expression is compositionally transparent, although 'scrote' is slang and may be unknown to many learners; conditional on knowing the noun's meaning, the phrase is immediately understandable.
Etymology
The slang be a scrote probably comes from the rude word scrote, a name for a private body part used to insult someone. Calling someone a scrote made them seem dirty or low, so to be a scrote came to mean 'to behave selfishly or unhelpfully'.