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TL;DR · Origin‘King-bat-deurashu’ was built in two stages. First came ‘king-bat-ne’, which takes the Korean for ‘I’m furious’ and swaps its first …
Origin
‘King-bat-deurashu’ was built in two stages. First came ‘king-bat-ne’, which takes the Korean for ‘I’m furious’ and swaps its first syllable for the English word king, using royalty as an intensifying prefix. It began spreading after the webtoon artist and broadcaster Chimchakman (Lee Mal-nyeon) used it repeatedly on stream, moving through YouTube into forums and then offline speech.
‘King-bat-deurashu’ appends Patrasche, the dog from A Dog of Flanders. Tacking the extra syllables on drags the word out, so that a phrase meaning anger comes out sounding soft and silly instead.
Spread
The whole ‘king-bat-ne’ family keeps generating variants. One plays on the sound of ‘king’ against the weight unit kg; others simply keep extending the tail. The play is with the letters, not the meaning.
The reason variants keep coming is that the meaning is already fixed. Whatever tail you attach, it still means you are annoyed, so the only remaining question is how ridiculous you can make it sound. ‘King-bat-deurashu’ is the version that stuck hardest.
Usage
- Registering mild irritation at something trivial
- Signalling that you are not actually angry
- The general game of adding new tails to the base word
Crucially, it is not used when you really are angry. The sound is comical enough that using it in a serious situation reads as a joke.
Sources
- Namuwiki, ‘Yeolbatda’ — how ‘king-bat-ne’ spread from Chimchakman’s broadcasts through YouTube, forums and offline speech, and the variants it produced
- Talisman, ‘The meaning and origin of king-bat-ne and pearl-bat-ne: Chimchakman’s broadcasts’ — the sense of the phrase and its use on air
- Trend A Word #123, ‘The king-bat-ne series’ — the ongoing stream of variants
