How is "son of a gun" an insult?
How is "son of a gun" an insult?
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It's just a softened version of "son of a bitch" but I agree with others, never heard of it as an insult
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I've heard an old man use it this way a long time ago in the west. You would only hear it from someone who's very old or thinks they're a polite cowboy.
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Southerners use it in a very endearing way that is hard to describe. Only ever in a funny and harmless way, to my knowledge
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They use it similar to "rascal"
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Exactly
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I heard it in the south. Tennessee.
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