Applied to persons in better circumstances than the speaker ; also to those belonging to the lower middle class.
That is why I am determined to break the cycle with my nieces and nephews! We’re not glorifying none of that shit around here. My nephews will be respectable young men and my nieces will know that if somebody likes yo…
I'd say half a million in 40 minutes is respectable, no? All we want is your love, Sam, but we'll take a tiny cardboard cutout of you as a substitute if we must. Show us the freakout if there's a freakout?
Applied to persons in better circumstances than the speaker ; also to those belonging to the lower middle class.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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Easy to see, then, how this mindset can be weaponized by those willing to break liberal norms as a one-way ratchet to shift the Overton window and launder their beliefs as respectable ones.
(AAVE) stylish and respectable; high-class.