Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of arse.
comparative more arsed · superlative most arsed
- CommonwealthslangvulgarBothered; willing to make an effort.
I can’t be arsed to get out of bed today.
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We asked John if he wanted to come down the pub with us, but he couldn’t be arsed.
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.
2008, Guy Cullen, Loose Ends, page 2[…]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.
2011, Ray Banks, Beast of Burden, page 133
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arsed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/arsed
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