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mortified
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Deeply embarrassed; humiliated. Standard English, run at full Northern Irish intensity: pure mortified.
Mortified is the standard English for what Northern Ireland calls scundered; the words define each other. It is also the name of our first game, which was christened months before anybody noticed the dictionary had already joined them up. The full coincidence is on the about page.
Mortified in a sentence
In Northern Ireland mortified rarely travels without pure in front of it, and saying it usually means the same as scundered.
Waved goodbye, then walked the same direction as them.
Phone went off in the quiet bit. Full volume. Mum flashing on screen.
Knocked the tin pyramid in the supermarket.
Common questions
What does mortified mean?
Deeply embarrassed; humiliated. From the Latin for death, which is roughly the level of drama intended.
What does pure mortified mean?
The Northern Irish intensified form. Pure does the work of utterly, and mortified rarely appears without it.
Is mortified the same as scundered?
Mortified is the standard English for what Northern Ireland calls scundered. The two words define each other.
Why is the game called Mortified?
Because the game is about that exact feeling. The studio is named after the Northern Irish word for it; the game took the English one.
The game of the same name
Mortified
The dignity-shredding party game.
Mortified is our party game about exactly this feeling. Your name lands on the screen, the room writes answers in secret, and nobody owns up until the reveal. One person buys, the whole room plays.
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See also
- scundered /ˈskʌn.dəd/ adjective The Northern Irish word for this exact feeling, and the studio namesake.
- affronted /əˈfrɒn.tɪd/ adjective Embarrassed, often on somebody else's behalf. The secondhand variety.
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