Etymology

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Today it means: bothered; caring about something Full definition →

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The story

Imitating a working-class or uneducated pronunciation with th-fronting. Popularised as the catchphrase of the fictional Lauren Cooper in The Catherine Tate Show in the mid-2000s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.