Help with an offensive slur definition

Factual Questions
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In the song All Cartoons Are Fucking Dicks from the album “Family Guy Live in Las Vegas,” our favorite psychotic one-year-old sings this verse (I think I am transcribing it correctly, but may be mishearing the lyrics.)

So what in the hell is an Adam? (Or is he saying something else that sounds like Adam?) Urban Dictionary was surprisingly unhelpful.

BTW, you can listen to the (very NSFW) song on Youtube here. The relevant part begins at 3:33.

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Arabs.

3

Just to clarify: it’s not that “Adam” means “Arab”. It’s that you misheard “Arabs” as “Adams”.

4

Stewie definitely says “Arabs,” I agree.

5

It really doesn’t sound like “Arabs” to me, but I’ll take your word for it.

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Definitely “Arabs.” It’s probably the British “r” that throwing you off.

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Yeah, it’s a quickly trilled (or possibly flapped) “r”, which I’ve discovered some Americans hear as a “d”. (Take, for instance, the phrase “very, very good,” which some people, when imitating Eastern European accents, will render as “veddy, veddy good,” when to my ears it’s clearly a flap “r” sound there. Similar in the example above. It’s unambiguously “Arabs” to me, but I can understand how someone might hear “Adams” if they’re not very familiar with this particular “r” phoneme.)

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Well, an alveolar flap is the sound Americans use in “veddy”, “Adam”, and so forth, so it’s no surprise they’d often hear it that way. And, of course, a trill is something like a quick repetition of flaps, so it might well be heard that way as well…

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Interestingly, in American English, “latter” and “ladder” are pronounced identically, the “tt” and “dd” being sounded as an alveolar flap.

There are other examples, too.

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I realized they were both alveolar flaps, but I didn’t realize that they are the same sound (which, judging by the fact IPA uses the same symbol for both, they are.) The way I pronounce “veddy” and “very” while imitating an Eastern European accent is slightly different. My tongue flaps down against the alveolar ridge much more aggressively when I do the “r” sound vs. the “d.” Perhaps this is a personal quirk.

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Well, there may be slight differences at some subtle level, for all I know; I don’t mean to deny the possibility. I was only pointing out (or re-emphasizing, since you were already aware) that they are the same to the extent that they are both voiced alveolar flaps.