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just deserts 

That which is justly deserved. Can refer to either a punishment (more common usage) or a reward.

Pronounced like 'desserts', the sweet course at the end of a meal, but spelled like an arid land mass, e.g. 'The Sahara and Gobi deserts are big, hot, and dry'.
'After cheating on him for years, she finally received her just deserts when presented with the divorce papers.'

'Ever patient and persistent in her struggle against the suppression of her people, she eventually got her just deserts in the form of a Nobel prize for peace.'
just deserts by pepelemoko December 12, 2007
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just desserts 

A common misspelling of the phrase "just deserts". While the two phrases are pronounced exactly the same, "desert" with the emphasis on the second syllable means something that one deserves, rather than an extremely arid expanse of land. "Dessert", on the other hand, is a sweet dish consumed after a meal.
shane123: lol i guess he got his just desserts
rob497: i think you mean "just deserts"
shane123: fuck off u grammar whore
rob497: okay jesus
just desserts by elusiveyellow August 25, 2013

just desert 

An idiom for ' to get whats coming to you ' .
It may appear that they're getting ahead by cheating, but they'll get their just deserts in the end.

just desserts 

what is coming to them; what "they" deserve
She ran over my cat, but got her just desserts when she was hit by a bus.
just desserts by Flavor Britt June 12, 2006

Just Desserts 

A transformation of the phrase 'justice hurts'.

"Hey man, did you ever get your phone back from your ex girlfriend?"

"Nah man, but she got her just desserts."

"What do you mean?"

"Bitch got hit by a train a couple weeks ago."
Just Desserts by |Matt| March 22, 2009

Just Desserts 

When a girl kisses you immediately after she swallows your load.
Jan: "So, did Greg make you swallow again last night?"
Marcia: "Yeah, but I kissed him right after, ha."
Jan: "Sounds like he got his just desserts, hahaha."
Just Desserts by Doc Irysch December 24, 2009
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
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