Reminds me of AE “pissed” meaning “annoyed” but “drunk” in BE and “pissed off” in BE meaning “miffed”.
I think there is a German word “pissoffen” meaning drunk.
I said I was miffed about something recently at a senior breakfast and several people chuckled and remarked that they had not heard “miffed” in decades. I don’t know why it suddenly appeared in my vocabulary but I am guessing that I learned it as a kid from grandparents who would have been horrified at “pissed” as an expletive. [Grandparents who, incidentally, would not have hesitated to say something like “That cow pissed all over my new boots!”.]
Presumably he mistakenly thinks it’s miffle as in puzzle, speckle, sparkle etc etc. Or maybe he’s deliberately conflating miffed and puzzled or some such -le word? Who knows what unassailable male logic lies behind it?
I think there is a German word “pissoffen” meaning drunk.
That’s ‘besoffen’ (cf. Du. bezopen), from a verb ‘saufen’ (cf. Du. zuipen) meaning ‘to drink heavily’. Nothing to do with ‘piss’. (well, not in the way we’re discussing it now anyway)
Edit: I just remembered: the more you drink, the WC
It’s just Tony’s less than educated character. He also said that he thought that his son AJ might be “making a molehill” out of the whole terrorist thing. And AJ himself pronounced the Irish poet’s name “Yeets.”
And this between Tony and his liberal law-student daughter:
Meadow: “The state can crush the individual.”
Tony (incredulously): “New Jersey?”
I’m with Oecolampadius (can we use a short version of your internet name, Oecol?). Tony is uneducated. He speaks like a young kid most of the time.
We all meet people who screw up words. We usually understand them, because we know what they meant. I doubt one will ever find “miffled” in any dictionary, slang or otherwise.
And, BTW, I think he should have been caught by the FBI. He was a cold-blooded killer.
