arsed adj.
1. bothered, concerned, e.g. I can’t be arsed to do it.
![]() | in H. Davies Beatles (1968) 131: If they can’t be arsed awaiting [sic] for me, I can’t be arsed going after them. | |
![]() | Burning your Own 88: Don’t forget who it was who organized the building of all this when you were too sulky to be arsed doing anything [OED]. | |
![]() | Guardian G2 1 Oct. 13: They will [...] supply the same service to any other else who can’t be arsed to set their video. | |
![]() | Miseducation of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (2004) 95: I couldn’t be orsed telling Kenny. | |
![]() | Guardian Rev. 7 Apr. 3: My writing room is very much as anyone would have envisaged it – if they could’ve been arsed. | in|
![]() | Killing Pool 15: Gang of little divvies them, love. Couldn’t be arsed with them . | |
![]() | Crongton Knights 272: The sausages were a dose undercooked — I couldn’t be arsed to point it out. | |
![]() | Headland [ebook] Murdoch [...] thought about the chances of bullshitting her. Possible [...] if he could be arsed. | |
![]() | Blood Miracles : ‘He can barely be arsed preserving it’. | |
![]() | Orphan Road 161: ‘Leigh got rid of her child with Mundy because she couldn’t be arsed looking after it’. |
2. fed up.
![]() | Soho 131: I’m totally arsed with this liner talk. |
In phrases
confused, mixed up.
![]() | AS VII:5 329: assed up — mixed up. | ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in|
![]() | Closely Observed Trains 142: [film script] My future is all arsed up! My beautiful inspector’s badge shot to pieces! | |
![]() | Dict. of Invective (1991) 25: assed up. Confused, muddled; a euphemism for ‘fucked up’. | |
![]() | Town That Forgot How to Breathe 214: It was always interesting to read about how mainlanders got everything all arsed-up about Newfoundland. |