Monkey butt

Posted by ESC on May 17, 2003

In Reply to: Got the red a*s posted by ESC on May 17, 2003

: : : Does anyone know where the phrase "got the red ass" might have come from. It is used to connote someone getting his dander up, i.e., "He got the red a** and began telling everyone off". ANY help would be appreciated. I am in Louisiana and I think that it might be a regional saying. Has anyone else heard this one before?

: : I'm from Boston and I never heard that so I am assuming its regional. Educated guess though, guessing its along the lines of "that really burns my ass" which would give one a red a** and seams to fit the usage.

: RED-ASSED - very angry. From "red-faced." U.S. slang mid 1900s to present. From "Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary of Oaths, Curses, Insults, Ethnic Slurs, Sexual Slang and Metaphor, Drug Talk, College Lingo and Related Matters" by Richard A. Spears (New American Library, Penguin Putnam, New York, Third Edition, 2001)

My first thought was what TRG said, monkey butt.