butthurt

[ buht-hurt ]

noun

1. mental distress or irritation caused by an overreaction to a perceived personal slight, a bad outcome, etc.

adjective

1. feeling such mental distress or irritation:

   The comments section is full of butthurt idiots.

Word History and Origins

Origin of butthurt¹

1995–2000; butt ¹( def ) + hurt ( def ); in reference to spanking a child

Example Sentences

Garcia, who was elected in 2020 and is running for reelection, last month he did a substantive interview on the podcast Butthurt Owens Valley, which is named after a red-leaning Facebook group where locals gossip and gripe.

From Los Angeles Times

I don’t want this criticism to come off as being done by a butthurt Apple fan who’s, as one person in the ad put it, “100 percent loyal to Apple.”

From The Verge

"When people were attacking you, I got butthurt," Rogan said.

From Salon

It can also be massively awkward when there is a disparity of attraction—maybe the third likes you more than him, maybe you’re more into the three-way than your boyfriend is and thus have to do the heavy lifting, maybe the novelty of a new body is so spellbinding that you end up paying way more attention to the new guy than your boyfriend and he gets figuratively butthurt as a direct result of his ignored butt literally not hurting at all.

From Slate

“I feel like they're going to make fun of me and then I'm going to be really butthurt because it’s me, you know,” D’Amelio explained.

From Fox News