so punchable
- idiom
- Offensive
:
para darle un puñetazo
- That smug smile makes him so punchable!
There's just, it's just so punchable.
- There's just, it's just so punchable.
Examples
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She finds that arrogant colleague so punchable whenever he brags in meetings.
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The villain in the series is so punchable that viewers can't help but dislike him.
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His smug expression made him so punchable during the interview.
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I find her attitude so punchable sometimes.
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His smug expression made him so punchable during the interview.
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She finds that arrogant colleague so punchable whenever he brags in meetings.
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The villain in the series is so punchable that viewers can't help but dislike him.
Synonyms
392
1.0
Making someone feel bothered or irritated
80
2.9
Making someone feel annoyed or impatient
26
7.5
So unpleasant you cannot stand it
22
5.3
Very annoying and hard to bear
1
8.2
A person or face that makes others want to hit them
So annoying that people want to hit it
Antonyms
How Annoying
- Offensive
- Offensive
1
8.2
26
5.3
80
2.9
392
1.0
14
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward combination of the intensifier 'so' and the transparent adjective 'punchable' (punch + -able), so its meaning 'very provoking the desire to hit / very annoying' can be derived from the constituents. Although informal/slang, the morphological composition and the intensifier pattern are regular and cross-linguistically common, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the parts.
Etymology
So punchable comes from a simple, literal image: a person looks so annoying you can imagine giving them a punch, so they are punchable. That's why so punchable means 'extremely irritating'.