- In the movie Mean Girls, one of the “popular girls” looks at a cheap piece of clothing in the mall and proclaims that it is absolutely grotsky.
Grotsky
adjective; clipping
to be very disgusting and offending in manner [Formed from a clipping of the word grotesque along with a phonetic spelling reason used: The girl who said this was trying to look cool in front of her friends, and didn’t want to look too intelligent by using a more learned word (grotesque), so she shortened and modified it.
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Last modified: 10 June 2008