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Ooh, get you!

Theseus

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(I have already submitted this UK phrase to Lexilogia but can’t find the answers because the words are too short to locate.)
It’s an interjection and can be a sarcastic and derisive phrase meant to mock something which is perceived as pretentious or overly refined. Far more often it is used humorously, rather than maliciously and is spoken by the gay community in a ‘camp’ manner.
Primarily heard in UK. A: "I need to go. I've got an appointment at the tanning salon." B: "Ooh, get you! Never thought you'd be the tanning bed type!"
Or “Ooh, get you! Look at Mr. Fancy Pants in his new suit”.
 
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Thread 'Ooh, get you!'

'Get you' is commonly, perhaps originally, used by 'gay' people and said in a very 'camp' way (in the sense of being exaggeratedly & affectedly homosexual/ pretending to be homosexual, with floppy wrists & calling everybody 'darling'). An example is :-
-Get you, darling, love your hairstyle'.
-1996, Stepping Up: four play scripts for the classroom, Jane Lilliard and Mollie Hemens:
-Gary: Ssh. Miss is talking!
-Debbie: Ooh, get you! Since when have you ever wanted to listen to the teachers?
1998 January 16, “Film: Dancing with the devil”, in The Independent, London, England:
-When Keanu...
 
Thanks, m_a_a. You got to my question in double quick time! I don’t know how to access these questions of long ago. Quite how do you do it?
 
You're more than welcome, Theseus.

I just googled: "Ooh, get you!" lexilogia.gr placing your query phrase in quotation marks. :-)
 
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