arsed

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːst/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)st
• Homophone: asked (in some non-rhotic accents)

arsed

1. simple past tense and past participle of arse.

arsed (comparative more arsed, superlative most arsed)

1. (Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Newfoundland, vulgar, slang) bothered; willing to make an effort.

   I can't be arsed to get out of bed today.

   We asked John if he wanted to come down the pub with us, but he couldn't be arsed.

   • 2008, Lynn Broadbent, Infinite Ideas Staff, Be Arsed: 365 Brilliant Ideas for Getting Off Your Backside and Living Life to the Full.
   • 2008, Guy Cullen, Loose Ends, page 2,

     You can keep all the macho bollocks that goes with the job. I can't be arsed who thinks what of me to be perfectly honest and I have no time for those that are.

   • 2011, Ray Banks. Beast of Burden, page 133,

     […] but here's the way you're supposed to run it: make out like it'll be a long, drawn out process, that you can't be arsed and that they shouldn′t be arsed because it'll probably end up doing fuck all except getting a copper pissed off at them.

2. (vulgar, in combinations) Having a particular kind of arse

   a big-arsed man

The term arsed, when used to mean bothered is not used attributively: a person who is bothered is not an arsed person.

• (bothered): fucked

• Dares, Dears, Redas, SDAer, Serda, dares, dears, rades, rased, reads