Disgustang
Disgustang is a catchphrase pulled from a 2013 webcam video where a Scottish mother scolds her daughters over an unflushed toilet, her thick accent turning the word disgusting into disgustang. The clip and its dubbed sequels turned the mispronunciation into a go-to reaction phrase for anything gross.
Overview
Disgustang is the meme spelling of the word disgusting as pronounced by a Scottish mother, Lizzie Brash, in a short webcam clip where she barges in on her daughters to complain that no one flushed the toilet1. The bit that stuck was the final word of her rant, delivered in a heavy Glasgow accent that flattens the -ing into something closer to -ang2.
The format is basically a sound bite. People pair her yelling with unrelated footage, react-post the word under anything gross, or splice the audio into cartoons and video game clips3. Urban Dictionary entries define it plainly as a meme version of disgusting rooted in the viral video, with usage examples like calling a cringey text disgustang2.
How It Spread
How to Use This Meme
Disgustang is typically used as a one-word reaction to something gross, cringey, or embarrassing, either typed out on its own or dropped under a photo. A common convention is to lean into the phonetic spelling with all caps, DISGUSTANG, to signal you're referencing the Scottish mom video rather than just using the normal word2. Video edits often just splice the mother's audio over an unrelated clip and let the punchline land on its own.