elSicomoro • Mar 8, 2007 10:33 am
..."vagina?"
Undertoad;321296 wrote:box
Undertoad;321322 wrote:hoo-haa
jinx;321328 wrote:baginer (buh-gIner)
LabRat;321314 wrote:What is the origin of 'beaver', anyone know?
Elspode;321380 wrote:Some of my former coven girls used to refer to it as "noo-noo"
I'll make a note for myself. I've got a dictionary of profanity at home...monster;321397 wrote:Try as I might, I can't find any interesting origins for the use of the term "beaver". I have a dictionary of slang, but (a) I caan't find it right now and (b) it's British, so I'm betting it just gives the origin as American and leaves it at that. I can't google for the answer any more -I'm all britney-spears-bald-beavered out.
monster;321397 wrote:If beaver were of British origin, I bet it'd be rhyming slang to do with the Belvoir Hunt.
Sundae Girl;321411 wrote:Even if it's not true, it's far too good an idea to go to waste. I will solemnly quote it as fact in future.
Happy Monkey;321423 wrote:Here
Sundae Girl;321424 wrote:Blocked :(
SteveDallas;321390 wrote:Are you sure they weren't saying "No! No!" ??
Spexxvet;321438 wrote:Pineapple
Nothing definitive, but a possibility is that it's...Happy Monkey;321405 wrote:I'll make a note for myself. I've got a dictionary of profanity at home...
Wicked Words by Hugh Rawson wrote:... derived from beard, since beaver (meaning the pelt of the dam-building animal) is slang for beard, and beard has referred to the female pubic hair as well as male facial hair since at least the seventeenth century.
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Thus, beaver also is shorthand for beaver hat, and hat is another old byword for the female genitals ("hat," according to Grose, "because frequently felt"). Again, a nickname for the beaver (animal) is flat tail, and TAIL is a very old word for the female genitals (Chaucer used it in this sense in the fourteenth century). Moreover, small furry animals often serve as metaphors for the female genitals.
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Happy Monkey;321536 wrote:Nothing definitive, but a possibility is that it's...
Happy Monkey;321536 wrote:Thus, beaver also is shorthand for beaver hat, and hat is another old byword for the female genitals ("hat," according to Grose, "because frequently felt").
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barefoot serpent;321814 wrote:oh yeah... ASL