Ryuu to Yuusha to Haitatsunin - Vol. 2 Ch. 9.5 - The Untold Story in Ep9's Party

[MangaDex]

 

[Talismaster]

Yoshida, the Shit (Read as “Worst”) Girl
Yoshida, the Pettan Pancake
Yoshida, the Butthurt

 

[sylvacoer]

I'd think anyone with the epithet "Anus Smasher" would be cause to run away immediately, especially if they're some sort of government official.

 

[Alhazred23]

Maybe if they'd explained the colorful histories of those epithets we might be reading about Yoshida the Anus Smasher from now on. 😋

 

[Ceiye]

Shit, if RNG naming were real now, I'd waste so much money trying to see what I could get. Gacha addiction is bad. It's hard to beat "Anus Smasher" though. She totally should have gone with that

 

[Vincentius]

@sylvacoer True. Though my gutter-based mind immediately decided to point out to me how very pornstar-esque a name it is. Like Johnny Shit-knuckles, the Anal Fisting Legend.

 

[Simpleton]

A famous chef in Stockholm in the late 15th century (Stockholm was a bit behind the times though, so probably like 13th century Italy) was Sketna Gertrud Syltekona.
Gertrud is for Gertrude, Syltekona means she was a female and worked with aspic (and presumably sausages and other foodstuffs involving the intestines).
Sketna means Filthy (like a pig is a filthy animal kind of filthy, covered in poop like)

I can only assume that she'd gladly have plonked down some coin for a reroll or a reset on her epithet.

 

[Le_Flemard]

Most of the family names in my region are based on this nickname system...

 

[AgentKuga]

Anus smasher is a unique name tho. I like it.

 

[agtra]

I would take Anus Smashers anyday tbh

 

[gronkle]

@Simpleton

Sketna means Filthy

In British English slang, "sket" means "promiscuous woman". Apparently that's from Caribbean slang "skettle", for which I can't find an origin.
Likely completely unrelated, but I thought it was interesting.

 

[need4speedrazor6]

imagine declining the title of anus smasher

 

[Gaze]

I'll take number II for me.

 

[Simpleton]

@gronkle I had a brief hope that there could be some common origin* and that such a meaning had been forgotten (my Swedish sources for the meaning of the word only reach back to the 16th century, so might have overlooked an earlier meaning), especially since a forgotten meaning of Sked (usually spoon) is Slida (knife sheath, but also vagina). (And since we only know Sketna Gertrud Syltekona from some judicial documents, Sketna might have been a pronounciaton typo of Skedna, as in one who has used her vagina)(*Common origin sourced from the Nordic languages, through Danish presence in Britain or Norwegians in Scotland, Ireland and Isle of Man)

Buut sadly the BE slang 'sket' is by Wiktionary supposed to be derived as a clipping from the Caribbean slang word 'skettle' with the meaning of promiscous.

Then again, the Online Etymology Dictionary has

'skit' as "piece of light satire or caricature," 1820, from earlier sense "a satirical remark or reflection" (1727), originally (1570s) "a vain, frivolous, or wanton girl" (originally Scottish, now archaic), related to verb meaning "to shy or be skittish, caper, frolic" (1610s), perhaps from Old Norse skjuta "to shoot, move quickly"

where the last meaning might have had a vovel shift to 'sket' once the humorists took over 'skit'.

tl/dr: Interesting it was. Language is weird. Historical anecdotes can be fun.
(And English language is often described with either "English is three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat" or "[English is] a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary" - and those metaphors are not mutually exclusive.)

 

[Pilatypus]

I can't believe there is a medieval gacha. What's the SSR rate?

 

[BCS]

So Anus Smasher is historical? Would love to know the backstory of that.

 

[Kokone]

this chapter taught me a lot

 

[Nightdotexe]

That's a really high charm stat for someone that is called anus smasher

 

[mage_goo]

>anus-smasher is actually an ssr
wasting all your descendant luck just to get that one ssr you don't want
yep, sounds like gacha alright

 

[Dumas1]

Could you imagine if modern politicians got epithets like that? It'd be fascinating to see how these things get chosen and remembered. I just hope they're more interesting than Crooked Hillary and Donald the Orange.

Also, John of England had a second epithet: Softsword.