filthy casual
- noun
- Informal
:
ropa informal
- She wore her filthy casual sweatshirt and ripped jeans to the café.
Examples
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He showed up in his filthy casual outfit for the barbecue.
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You can spot the difference between smart casual and filthy casual at most parties.
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During the summer, my wardrobe is almost entirely filthy casual.
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I love wearing filthy casual clothes on weekends.
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On lazy Sundays, I prefer to wear my filthy casual clothes for comfort.
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At the beach, everyone was dressed in filthy casual attire, enjoying the sun.
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His filthy casual style, with a loose t-shirt and shorts, was perfect for the laid-back gathering.
Antonyms
How Casual
Surface Forms
Morphology
filthy + casual
A learner who knows 'filthy' (negative/intensifying) and 'casual' (not serious) can plausibly infer that 'filthy casual' labels someone as very non-serious, so the basic negative sense is compositional. However, the phrase is slangy and culturally specific (especially in gaming) and the derogatory intensifier function of 'filthy' is metaphorical and conventionalized, so the exact pragmatic force and conventional use are not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Filthy casual may come from the picture of someone in very messy clothes where filthy means 'dirty' and casual means 'very relaxed clothes'. So the phrase is used to mean 'very informal, even sloppy, style'.