ignorant adj.
1. angry, irascible, short-tempered.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Jane’s Career (1971) 58: See here, Miss Mason [...] I tell y’u not to abuse me, for I will get ignorant again. | |
| Lonely Londoners 39: One day a Jamaican fellar come in and get ignorant and start to make rab. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Indep. Rev. 10 June 4: Ignorant: easily angered (black Eng). |
2. unpleasant.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Snakes (1971) 127: I come up here for a piece of tail and get mixed up in some old ignorant murder shit! |
3. arrogant, ill-natured, bullying.
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Slanguage. |
In compounds
(US black) alcohol.
 | [song title] Hootie’s Ignorant Oil. | |
| Howard Street 87: That ignorant oil might clear your head some. | |
| S.R.O. (1998) 15: What goddam right did Sid Bailey have to cry? Wasn’t it his goddam money that bought the goddam ignorant-oil? | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 187: Hard liquor also had its own vernacular labels – oil, ignite oil, do-it fluid. |
1. (US) a mop.
| Amer. Record Guide 11-13 212: Get the Mop (the ignorant stick) [...] highlights the bass and rhythm section and recalls Woody Herman's new treatment of his rhythm section. | |
| Billboard 9 Feb. 31: Featuring J. C. Higginbotham BUZZ ME GET THE MOP (The Ignorant Stick). |
2. (US) a shovel; a long-handled hoe.
| ‘Day of the Alligator’ in Algren Lonesome Monsters (1963) 133: Well, play me a tune on that ignorant stick you got there. | |
| Out of the Bleachers 80: We used a long hoe called ‘the ignorant stick’. | |
| Clarence Major and His Art 23: A black man dressed like an English gentleman is bludgeoning a poor, suffering white man over the head with an ignorant-stick. |
In phrases
(W.I.) to lose one’s temper, to be rude; thus get someone ignorant, to enrage, to infuriate.
| Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage. |
see under Paddy n.
(UK Und.) to irritate, to annoy.
| Signs of Crime 188: Ignorant, make Make angry (South London). |