I think it is one of those words black folks abandoned and gave away to white people. That's the other level of weirdness/grossness to which I was referring.
Hahah, it's one of those words that I started using ironically, and then I became the person/people I was making fun of.
Hahaha, the life cycle: black people use a word, white people run it into the ground and ruin it, black people abandon it. We really do ruin everything.
I bet he pronounced it in his head in a very white way too pronouncing the "T" at the end with a "TTTTEH"
"I don't understand....why are there Oreo crumbs mixed with lube on this chair. Wait, don't answer that."