Kind of like a drunk doing something and it turns out to be astounding? I can only find stuff about putting extra effort or no effort and it was awesome. I didn’t sign the slip because I didn’t know.
Pics of the write up or gtfo
Hey yea let me go ask my boss if he can show me the slip he turned in to corporate so I can put them on blast just for you.
Sounds like you work for a little bitch company, writing people up for something so simple.
Hot damn how can I hire someone as compliant as yourself.
Isn’t it a reference to making moonshine? That’s how I grew up understanding it.
No, it’s from Middle English “engin”, which at the time meant a device or trick.
see: the cotton gin
Drinking cotton Gin leads to cotton mouth.
Exactly,
I don’t even know how to pronounce that.
kinda like the word gin but with a d at the end.
It’s pronounced just like gif
You made that up –.–
Gin’d up. Get out o’ here
Sounds like you are call them alcoholic.
You didn’t do shit because you’re just reposting this from reddit.
If I saw it on reddit i would not have asked here, I did a google search too.
Perchance you slipped and meant to say G’d up?
how do you pronounce that?
Kinda like the letter G but with a d on the end.
From the New Oxford American Dictionary:
gin up
(gin something up, gin up something) US English generate or increase something, especially by dubious or dishonest means: the trade press has ginned up a controversy | critics say the program is just a way for big drug companies to gin up demand for their psychiatric drugs.So it’s not an offensive slur, but it’s an accusation of dishonesty that most people would take offense to.
I’ve always heard it used as “conjuring something out of nothing.”
So, it’s usually more associated with shit stirring than it is being resourceful or something.
I had to go check, because I’ve heard a YouTuber use “gin up” a lot and they’re not the sort to use slurs.
At time of writing Wiktionary’s entry on “gin up” doesn’t list it as a slur either, so I’m inclined to believe it isn’t one.
What I think your employers / colleagues may have heard, or confused it with is “gip” / “gyp” (also soft ‘g’), which is an abbreviation of “gypsy” and is generally used to mean “pain” or “a cause to complain”, hence being a slur for travelling folk.
It’s such a weak, ridiculous slur that many people don’t even know its etymology and use it by imitation. It was very common on British TV up to the '90s, for example, and older British folk may still occasionally use it.
In the US, “gyp” is a verb which means to commit fraud against someone (as in, “I got gypped” if you bought something that turned out to be worthless). Similarly, almost no one knows the etymology or realizes that it’s racist.
This is probably anecdotal / subjective on my part, so take this under advisement, but I feel like that usage is more clearly a slur.
The bit about not knowing the etymology for the “cause to complain” version was me at one point, and I think I might have guessed the origin of the given verb without necessarily connecting it to the noun, despite the similarity.
FWIW, in my dialect there’s also a verb “to gip”, hard g, which is imitative (and so nothing to do with slurs) and means “to dry retch or feel one might be about to”, which is almost never used in the past tense. Hearing it in the past tense, even with a soft g, would make me question everything, which may be another reason why I feel this way.
It’s not clear that it’s a slur because few Americans know that gyp is short for gypsy.
https://grammarist.com/idiom/gin-something-up/
I hear it occasionally. Seems to have a meaning comparable to:
- Cobble together
- Jury rig
- Hammer something out
- Slap something together
Basically, “to construct something in an improvised manner”. As opposed to careful, calculated, methodical planning and meticulous craftsmanship.
I have literally never heard this in my life. What part of the world are we talking about?
Midwest/Great Lakes, US. I don’t think it originated here, though. I’ve heard it often enough to recognize it, but it’s not common.
Time to file a harassment claim against the other person for creating undue stress on your part because they chose to hear you wrong lol.
Maybe for the apostrophe abuse? It’d be “ginned” in English.
djinn’ed up
Whoa, not cool.
