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Meanings
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(UK) Used to challenge another's use of a term, replacing it with something the speaker or writer considers more pertinent.
Nothing to do with his physical prowess. Bullshit and crap more like — very funny though.
2007, Dave Cox, Gone for a Burton:"Load of old rubbish, more like. Just a daft story from a time when folk didn't know any better."
2002, Mark Morris, The Lonely Places:"Gloriously unpredictable?" Fucking rubbish, more like.
2005, Mark Worrall, Over Land and Sea:Syllabics? Silly bollocks, more like.
2005, Stephen Fry, The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within:
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Used to introduce a pun or joke about some name.
More like the Academy Awk-wards, am I right?
2023 March 10, Lester Fabian Brathwaite, “The Oscars' biggest controversies, scandals, and WTF moments”, in Entertainment Weekly, retrieved 23 Mar 2023:'Notion Club! More like the Commotion Club! Is there any news of the Commoters?'
1992, J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, Sauron Defeated, →ISBN, page 254:
Translations (7)
es más bien (Translations) · pl prędzej (Translations) · de eher gesagt (Translations) · es más como (Translations) · pl raczej (Translations) · ro mai degrabă (Translations) · de wohl eher (Translations)