Modern usage should be an insult. Just add "literally." Original meaning from the 1800s: clever or intelligent. First said by Long John Silver, a pirate (an occupation known for excellent grammar?) in "Treasure Island." But how smart is paint, really?
If your target researches the phrase, dictionariies only have the original, complimentary definition --- which becomes a sneaky insult if you add "literally."
If your target researches the phrase, dictionariies only have the original, complimentary definition --- which becomes a sneaky insult if you add "literally."
You're as smart as paint, literally. Don't be offended. I was just paraphrasing a compliment from "Treasure Island." It's a literary classic.
by Albino Raven August 25, 2023
Get the Smart as paintmug. by Apedom August 3, 2021
Get the Monkey Paintmug. by anonymous May 10, 2022
Get the Hard in the paintmug. The artstyle used for those funky, simple drawings, occasionally with suspicious amounts of equally simple gore that gay people on the internet use as reaction images. Mostly used to represent a strong and very high or very low energy emotion. (e.g. anger, unrest, depression, hyper-focus)
by GBTG794 September 1, 2023
Get the MS paint pseudo-hyperbolic expressionismmug. Look man I don’t actually know what puffy paint is but it is a sort of liquid that feels like glue, and whenever you put it on something it hardens up into a rubber material
Wat??? Idk how to use puffy paint in a sentence
Nah jk I normally say it like this
Yo bro
Yea?!
Imma puffy paint
Nah jk I normally say it like this
Yo bro
Yea?!
Imma puffy paint
by -somebodyoncetoldme April 25, 2022
Get the Puffy paintmug. When someone mainly in prison anally rapes some one and gets poop and blood all over its penis so they smear their penis on the wall like a paint brush know as paint the wall.
by ScatPackWallPainter June 17, 2025
Get the Paint the wallmug. Going 'hard in the paint' or 'painting': The act of interacting with/talking to a person with sexual intent or intent to start a relationship, attempting to 'woo' someone.
"I think John is painting for Jeanne." - Guy 1
"Yeah he's definitely going hard in the paint." - Guy 2
*starts pretending to paint on John*
"Yeah he's definitely going hard in the paint." - Guy 2
*starts pretending to paint on John*
by Jakob7 September 28, 2022
Get the Hard in the paintmug.