In the 13th century, “dame” was synonymous with “female ruler” (and indeed even today “Dame” is considered the female equivalent of “Sir”, as in knighthood, in the UK. “Domina” has its origins in the same Latin word that “domestic” ultimately came from, namely “domus”, meaning “house”. “Dame” popped up in English around the 13th century from the Old French “dame”, meaning “wife / mistress”, which in turn came from the Latin “domina”, meaning “mistress of the house, lady”. It may have come from the German “schlutt”, meaning “slovenly woman” or the Swedish “slata”, meaning “idle woman”. Much more recently, Helen Fielding in Bridget Jones’s Diary used the word “slut” with its original meaning, “Check plates and cutlery for tell-tale signs of sluttish washing up…”, so the original meaning is still around, albeit much less commonly used now than the “promiscuous” definition.Īs to where the word “slut” came from, that isn’t entirely known. This can be seen in a Saturday Review snipped from 1862, “There are a good many slut-holes in London to rake out.” In the 19th century in England, slut still retained something of its original meaning, even so far as garbage cans being called “slut-holes”, meaning a hole for rubbish. It also came to be a somewhat common term for an ugly woman, as in a quote from 1715, “Nor was she a woman of any beauty, but was a nasty slut.” The word first popped up in English with this latter “slovenly” definition around the 14th century and by the 15th century had started to be used to describe promiscuous women as well. Because of this, it was frequently used at this time as a name for kitchen maids and servant girls, as Pepys was talking about in the above quote. However, at this time, while the term had begun to take on a more suggestive connotation of “woman with loose morals”, it still also was commonly used with the original meaning, that of a “messy, dirty, or untidy” woman or girl. In modern day terms, this diary entry seems quite suggestive for a man to describe a servant girl such. “Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others and deserves wages better.” For instance, in a diary from 1664, Samuel Pepys writes, “Slut” originally didn’t mean at all what it means today. We would like this forum to flourish and become much more involved with our community and with your help it can be possible.Rinni asks: Why are women sometimes called “sluts”, “dames”, and “broads”? Where did these words come from? Let one of the founders know if you are really interested in this position. We need a few more dedicated as article reviewers that enjoy writing and wouldn't view this as a hassle. All our articles are going to be direct and to the point, unlike other sites that are like commercials and you aren't interested in being interrupted from the show. Instead of you having multiple sites we are trying to combine wat our prospective members will want. This is our goal to involve more for our community to our forum. We are making a home page atm and will be into something that can draw more, and involve more content. More likely we want u to become more than a visitor to our forum we would like to to become a member of our ever growing community and also see our site as a place for you to enjoy yourself.Ĭurrently we are searching for 5 plus people to fill in some staff positions, such as post articles write reviews etc. From gaming to anime to real life topics, flick your bean is growing more to involve, you the visitor. Currently flick your bean has topics that would interest you as the reader/viewer. Its a growing community its a forum that can be so much more. Flick your bean, what does it mean to you? It may be a odd phrase but we the staff see it as something more.
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