On Urbania, Donavan Lauzon lists his top 10 signs you’ve failed Valentine’s Day.
Number 9?
Tu t’es fait domper au mois de février.
You got dumped in the month of February.
Domper is an informal usage. It comes from the English dump.
But se faire domper isn’t the only way he says to get dumped in his post. He also uses the swear word crisser in the expression se faire crisser là.
[…] tu te fais crisser là, la semaine ou la journée même de la St-Valentin.
Maybe that expression will remind you of Lisa LeBlanc’s song Câlisse-moi là. Câlisser is a swear word. Câlisse-moi là is a rude way of saying dump me. If you follow that link, you’ll find another example of this: Maude Schiltz in Ah shit, j’ai pogné le cancer says she’s dumping a health professional at the hospital where she’s receiving treatment because she’s lost all faith in him. She says:
C’est fini, je le câlisse là.
Crisser and câlisser are often used when talking about getting rid of things (and people!). Crisser quelqu’un dehors and câlisser quelqu’un dehors both mean to kick someone the hell/fuck out. But when the sense is one of dumping or ditching someone, instead of dehors it’s là.
Tu te fais crisser là.
Je le câlisse là.
Câlisse-moi là, etc.
The author goes on to explain that getting dumped on or around Valentine’s Day is bad timing:
Être en break-up à cette période de l’année, c’est comme pogner une érection en public : vraiment pas un timing optimal.
Being broken up this time of the year [around Valentine’s Day] is like getting an erection in public: really not the best timing.
Broadly speaking, pogner means to catch. So pogner une érection means to “catch” an erection, in other words, to get an erection.
se faire domper
se faire crisser là
crisser quelqu’un dehors
pogner une érection
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Donavan Lauzon, Le Registre : les 10 signes que tu échoues ta St-Valentin, Urbania, 12 February 2015.
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