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My daughter said she was "sketched out" because something. I haven't heard that term used before. Have you? | ||
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No. But then the language of one generation is commonly incomprehensible to the older generation. Richard English | |||
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Well, it has 1,480,000 Google hits, so it's apparently used a lot. I haven't seen "sketchy" used as a verb. My daughter says it means, "uncomfortable about a situation, with a dangerous connotation." When we look it up online, it also seems to be related to being under the influence of drugs. | |||
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I've seen "stretched out" and "strung out" used with a similar meaning, but not "sketch". Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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Many of those hits may be in the British usage meaning "outlined" or "explained in vague terms". For example, "Here's the way he sketched out the plan to me." This is a very common usage here. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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sketched out FWIW, Urban Dictionary has a couple of entries that seem to overlap in meaning (link). I've never heard it used, except in Bob's sense, and that over here by non-Britons. —Ceci n'est pas un seing. | |||
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I've heard it used in the sense of describing a plan, "sketched out the plan," but not in the other sense of strung out on drugs. Wordmatic | |||
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