Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Feb 5, 2007 17:20
17 yrs ago
English term
stunadz
English
Art/Literary
Slang
The sentence is:
"What's it with you, a stunadz?"
I can't seem to find a really comprehensible explanation for this word. Any help is appreiciated.
"What's it with you, a stunadz?"
I can't seem to find a really comprehensible explanation for this word. Any help is appreiciated.
Responses
| 2 +4 | Stone head |
Jackie Bowman
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| 3 +2 | An under age prostitute "stunned" on drugs |
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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| 2 +3 | Just a bit more information about the word |
Jack Doughty
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| 4 | [a case of being] a dope, an idiot, a stupid person |
Alexander Demyanov
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Stone head
That is, someone who's stoned on drugs, drunk on alcohol or simply stupid. The link might help ...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=STOONAD/STUNA...
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Note added at 9 mins (2007-02-05 17:29:47 GMT)
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Or perhaps simply 'idiot', if this link is to be believed ...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stunad
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=STOONAD/STUNA...
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Note added at 9 mins (2007-02-05 17:29:47 GMT)
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Or perhaps simply 'idiot', if this link is to be believed ...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stunad
Note from asker:
| Thank you very much for the explanation. It works well for me :) |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Jack Doughty
4 mins
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| agree |
Vicky Papaprodromou
9 mins
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| agree |
Alexander Demyanov
: w/stupid and synonyms, not w/drug or alcohol parts
26 mins
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| agree |
Alfa Trans (X)
2 days 35 mins
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you :)"
+2
9 mins
An under age prostitute "stunned" on drugs
It does exist on Google
Note from asker:
| Thank you for the explanation. I did find the word in Google but couldn't really grasp the "right" meaning for the text that I'm working on :) |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Jack Doughty
0 min
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| agree |
Vicky Papaprodromou
6 mins
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| neutral |
Alexander Demyanov
: I am 99% sure it doesn't mean that but means just "stupid", "lightheaded", etc. (The proof is also found w/Google)
29 mins
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9 mins
Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
Translator since 1953
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, German to English, English
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20
Just a bit more information about the word
Google has only 12 references for stunadz, and they are ALL to this passage from the novel "I, Robot", by Cory Dotorow:
In an ideal world, he'd simply follow her. He was good at tailing, and his unmarked car with its tinted windows was a UNATS Robotics standard compact #2, indistinguishable from the tens of thousands of others just like it on the streets of Toronto. Ada would never know that the curb-crawler tailing her was her sucker of a father, making sure that she turned up to get her brains sharpened instead of turning into some stunadz doper with her underage butt hanging out of a little skirt on Jarvis Street.
From this it would seem to mean stupefied (note that "stun" is part of it) by dope.
In an ideal world, he'd simply follow her. He was good at tailing, and his unmarked car with its tinted windows was a UNATS Robotics standard compact #2, indistinguishable from the tens of thousands of others just like it on the streets of Toronto. Ada would never know that the curb-crawler tailing her was her sucker of a father, making sure that she turned up to get her brains sharpened instead of turning into some stunadz doper with her underage butt hanging out of a little skirt on Jarvis Street.
From this it would seem to mean stupefied (note that "stun" is part of it) by dope.
Note from asker:
| tyvm :) I found that site also but it doesn't make much sense in the text I'm working on :) Thank you for the explanation. |
Peer comment(s):
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Vicky Papaprodromou
6 mins
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Thank you.
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Tony M
: Right, makes sense now! I'd originally though of it as a deliberate distortion of "stone head" // I'm pretty sure you're right, like "1984" too
15 mins
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Thank you. I wonder if, being set in the future, it is like "A Clockwork Orange" in containing invented words for a future world, some of which have come into use.
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Refugio
18 mins
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Thank you.
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Alexander Demyanov
: 1. I don't see where "by dope" derives from aside from "doper" but then the quote would mean "a doper stupified by dope", kind of redundant. 2. I don't think "stunadz" shares its root w/"stun": "stunad" has another spelling of "stoonad"
27 mins
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Ken Cox
: any chance this comes from Russian or another Slavic language? (it doesn't sound particularly English)
56 mins
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It doesn't sound particularly Slavic either.
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31 mins
Alexander Demyanov
Software Engineering background
Native in: Russian 
Works in: English, Russian, Russian to English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
[a case of being] a dope, an idiot, a stupid person
I don't think this means "stoned" or "on dope" or "on drugs".
Instead, I believe it may be a version of "stunad", and the speaker says:
"What's it with you, you have become a stunad?"
Consider these references:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stunad
http://423smith.com/index.php/2006/09/22/my-favorite-new-ita...
Instead, I believe it may be a version of "stunad", and the speaker says:
"What's it with you, you have become a stunad?"
Consider these references:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stunad
http://423smith.com/index.php/2006/09/22/my-favorite-new-ita...
Note from asker:
| Thank you. |
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