crotchling
A delightfully uncharitable slang term for a child — specifically the kind of term deployed by someone who finds children loud, inconvenient, or generally in the way.
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A delightfully uncharitable slang term for a child — specifically the kind of term deployed by someone who finds children loud, inconvenient, or generally in the way. It combines anatomical bluntness with a diminutive suffix to create something that manages to be funny and rude simultaneously. Online communities devoted to the child-free lifestyle adopted it enthusiastically. It's not genuinely hateful but it does signal a decided lack of sentimentality about small humans.
The restaurant was meant to be adults-only, but somehow a table of crotchlings had still managed to invade.
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(slang, derogatory) A child.
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- crotch dropping85%
A blunt, deliberately crude slang term for a child or offspring, used to express exasperation, dark humour, or contrarianism around parenting culture. Calling a kid a 'crotch dropping' strips away the sentimentality usually attached to children and replaces it with raw biological frankness. The term is mostly used online by child-free communities, in edgy comedy, or by parents venting about the exhausting reality of raising kids — rarely as a term of genuine contempt.
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(slang, derogatory) A child.
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(slang, derogatory) A child; an offspring.
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A vulgar, derogatory slang term for a child, reducing children to an unpleasant byproduct of sex. Used by people expressing irritation at children in general or, in more extreme moments, by those who are firmly child-free and want to signal contempt. Deliberately shocking rather than genuinely hateful in most uses.