What is the origin of nasty

A nasty shock / surprise.The genre was pioneered by djs and producers in chicago such as frankie knuckles, ron hardy, jesse saunders.We can find nasty applied to girl since at least the 1700s, negatively describing young women as mean or lewd—and in early 1800s slang, positively describing them as excellent or very attractive, just as bad has colloquially come to mean good..There was a variant nasky in early modern english.He had a nasty cut above the eye.

Definition of nasty it can also be mean.A nasty pigsty of a room.There's a nasty smell in here.'plastic bags burn with a nasty, acrid smell'.Filled or smeared with offensive matter.

Unpleasantness, ugliness, offensiveness, disagreeableness more synonyms of nasty.So the way she deems it, tonight is the idea night for the two of them to get it on.A combining form with the meaning nastic pressure, of the kind or in the direction specified by the initial element:Nasty in this context is also slang for awesome.Exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent.

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