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- But then I found Derpy Hooves, a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic character who was originally named “Muffins” but quickly garnered the nickname “Derpy Hooves” from some bronies (adult.
- Derpy is a G4 Pegasus Pony. She was initially a background pony in the TV show, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, before being released in toy form due to popularity. Merchandise featuring Derpy typically avoids naming her outright, and usually includes her trademark cross-eyed appearance.
If you’ve heard your kids use the word “derpy,” you’re forgiven for not having the first clue what they’re talking about. Like every generation, they have a whole slang vocabulary that’s basically a foreign language to anybody born pre-1998. Most of the words are harmless (“VSCO girl,” “fire,” “no cap”), but it’s worthwhile to learn what they mean because sometimes a seemingly innocent word crops up that you really don’t want your kids to be using.
Like “derpy.”
“I heard this word for the first time from my 10-year-old, and the way he used it made it sound like a synonym for ‘silly’ or ‘goofy,'” wrote Meghan Moravcik Walbert for Lifehacker. But when she did a little digging, she found a “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” character named Muffins, who also goes by the nickname “Derpy Hooves.” She also happens to have a cross-eyed expression and demeanor.
Dictionary. com says “derpy” means “a person or thing considered to be foolish or awkward,” while Urban Dictionary defines it as “ridiculous, random, silly” and says the variation, “derp face,” is an offensive ableist phrase that associates a facial expression that “often involves eyes turned in different directions and a stupid smile” with people with disabilities.
But no matter what, derpy is derpy, and her love for muffins will always be there (and the whole making everything a mess, at times. We still love you derpy XD). Heh, that is really cool! Most hydraulic tubing is non-transparent, so that is really stand out and awesome u. Disabled; 📺 by Spazzy Powered by Pony2PonySpazzy Powered by Pony2Pony. Derpy, also known as Muffins and Ditzy Doo, is a female Pegasus pony who was given the name Derpy Hooves by the show's internet following due to her cross-eyed 'derpy' expression in the first episode. The name has since been adopted by the crew and Hasbro.
But it goes further than that. According to MailOnline in 2012, critics of the nickname “Derpy Hooves” said her name refers to “derp” — a word used to mock the disabled that reportedly stems from the sound some children make to each other at schools, poking fun of people with Down syndrome and other disabilities.
In 2016, two researchers were criticized for using “derpy” in a scientific paper. Published in the journal “Archives of Sexual Behavior,” it was titled “Fighting the Derpy Science of Sexuality” and argued against the notion that science can provide biological evidence of differences between human groups. In this case, the authors understood “derpy” to mean something different, and later found out it was also an ableist slur.
They published a lengthy apology in the same journal, explaining that “‘derpy’ was introduced to us as a pop-cultural term that meant believing in something despite the fact that it has been disproven” and saying they regretted their “negligence in not figuring that out before the Commentary was published.”
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If you hear your child say “derpy,” it’s probably unlikely that they know what it means beyond “random” or “silly,” but it’s best you explain to them why it’s not a word you want to come out of their mouth. A simple, age-appropriate conversation along the lines of “that word can be offensive and hurtful to people with disabilities” will suffice until they’re old enough to dig into it themselves.
Meaning
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The term derpy is synonymous to the words random, silly, idiotic and stupid, being an adjective version of the word derp.
Origin
Derp was created by the masterminds behind the Tv series South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
It is first heard in their film, titled Basketball, where they are caught sniffing women’s underwear and Matt leaves the room, running, dropping the beautiful expression that is derp.
It didn’t just stop there, with the appearance of Mr. Derp in South Park, and the term reappearing several times during the lifetime of the show, with moments like the parody of Rob Schneider’s film trailer in the episode “The Biggest Douche of the Universe”.
Spread and Usage
The first Urban Dictionary entry was added on derp in 2003. Since then, it has been featured in 4chan’s image macros, as well as the well-known rage comics, with characters called Derp and Derpina.
Characters seen with the text derp around them are usually portrayed with eyes looking into two separate directions.
The term derpy has derived from the base word during the last 20 years and its use in mainstream English is growing slowly but steadily.
External References
- Urban Dictionary – Derpy