- etymology - Origin of the word cum - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Etymonline explains: cum (verb and noun) seems to be a modern (by 1973) variant of the sexual sense of come that originated in pornographic writing, perhaps first in the noun sense
- etymology - Where did the phrase batsh*t crazy come from? - English . . .
The word crazy is a later addition Scanning Google Books I find a handful of references starting from the mid-60s where batshit is clearly just a variation on bullshit (nonsense, rubbish) - which meaning still turns up even in 2001, but it's relatively uncommon now
- etymology - What is the origin of the phrase ‘By the by. . . ’? - English . . .
By the by dates from the 1610’s (confirmed by Alenanno’s data), and the key (and originality) to its etymology is in the second by Etymonline says of by: Originally an adverbial particle of place, in which sense it is retained in place names (Whitby, Grimsby, etc ) Elliptical use for "secondary course" (opposed to main) in Old English
- etymology - Do these river names mean anything? - English Language . . .
The word 'pen' means hill Later, the next incomers changed the hill's name to 'Pendle', meaning 'hill hill' And then the next incomers, not knowing the etymology (and sadly lacking an internet) called it Pendle Hill or 'hill hill hill', so Pendle Hill really, really, really is a hill, because anything said three times is the truth
- etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
'The basic sources of [The Online Etymological Dictionary] are Weekley's "An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English," Klein's "A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language," "Oxford English Dictionary" (second edition), "Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology," Holthausen's "Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache
- What are some good sites for researching etymology? [closed]
Online Etymology Dictionary; Google Books, set date range and sort by date* Google Ngram Viewer; Bill Mullins has a giant list of Full Text Databases; Internet Archive; Project Gutenberg; HathiTrust Digital Library; The Right Rhymes: hop-hop slang defined; Rap Stats by Rap Genius gives an idea of earliest use, but cannot be searched by time
- How did the word beaver come to be associated with vagina?
Etymology Online offers that beaver in the gynecological sense is British slang dating from 1927, transferred from earlier meaning "a bearded man" (1910), or from the appearance of split beaver pelts
- etymology - Why is pineapple in English but ananas in all other . . .
From Wikipedia, Columbus encountered the pineapple in 1493 on the Leeward island of Guadeloupe He called it piña de Indes, meaning "pine of the Indians", and brought it back with him to Europe, thus making the pineapple the first bromeliad to leave the New World
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