The why-is-it-called-that thread

[MagicaPractica]

Is it making end's meet? Or meat? I've seen it both ways. The first seems to suggest getting two ends to come together but the second I had heard had something to do with being able to afford the cheap leftover end of the meat in butcher's store during the depression.

 

[The_Fool]

Is it making end's meet? Or meat? I've seen it both ways. The first seems to suggest getting two ends to come together but the second I had heard had something to do with being able to afford the cheap leftover end of the meat in butcher's store during the depression.

ends meet and meat ends.

 

[Guest]

ends meet and meat ends.

I'm awfully fond of meat.

 

[The_Fool]

I'm awfully fond of meat.

rapacious carnivore.....

 

[Guest]

rapacious carnivore.....

Yes.

Who happens to be writing again.

 

[The_Fool]

Yes.

Who happens to be writing again.

As it should be....

 

[Carnevil9]

Snickerdoodle.



This word has always perplexed me.




p.s. Yes, I'm aware it's a cookie. Possibly the stupidest cookie name ever, but who's keeping track?

Actually, "Snickerdoodle" would be a better name for a blowjob than "blowjob" is! "Hey, darling...," "...How abouts a little snickerdoodle for the old man here, eh?"

 

[Weird Harold]

How about the biggest, baddest, importantest why-is-it-called-that word: Why do they call it a blowjob when it mostly involves sucking?

One explanation I've heard:
During WWI, the prostitutes in Paris were divided into a red-light district for the enlisted and a blue-light district for the officers. Oral servicing wasn't available in the production-line bordellos of the red-light district, so it became known as a Bleu-Job -- which American doughboys quickly corrupted into blow-job.

 

[Boxlicker101]

How about the biggest, baddest, importantest why-is-it-called-that word: Why do they call it a blowjob when it mostly involves sucking?

I remember reading somewhere, and I don't remember where, that it was a reference to cumming so hard that the man would almost blow the woman's head off. An exaggeration, of course.

 

[glynndah]

You might be interested in this website: A compendium of lost words

 

[matriarch]

"Speak a piece of your mind" and "Hold yourself in peace" (E.I. keep your pie-hole shut)

In the UK, the phrase is 'cake hole', rather than 'pie hole'.

 

[joeys-game]

"Speak a piece of your mind" and "Hold yourself in peace" (E.I. keep your pie-hole shut)

thought it was 'cake-hole'?
*grin*


i need to read to the end don't I now..I just about repeated...

 

[joeys-game]

In the UK, the phrase is 'cake hole', rather than 'pie hole'.

I did reppeat!!!!!...sorry aunty


I always liked..'Bob's Your Uncle"

 

[gauchecritic]

Is it making end's meet? Or meat? I've seen it both ways. The first seems to suggest getting two ends to come together but the second I had heard had something to do with being able to afford the cheap leftover end of the meat in butcher's store during the depression.

It was common practice into the 1960's at least, for butchers to fill the ends of sausages with bread crumbs, whether this was a taste thing or a way to make uncooked sausages longer I have really no idea, because the logistics of portioning meat through the grinder when making sausages seems to me to outweigh any pecuniary advantage. That is, the sausage could hardly weigh much more and the immediate effect of cooking shows the bread crumbs up. (I still remember the crozzled ends affectionately)

But I think that this practice is where 'both ends meat' comes from.

On the other hand, and slightly more sophisticated in thinking, is making the end of the weekly wage coincide with the end of the working week. (payday) That would be making both ends meet.

 

[Recidiva]

It was common practice into the 1960's at least, for butchers to fill the ends of sausages with bread crumbs, whether this was a taste thing or a way to make uncooked sausages longer I have really no idea, because the logistics of portioning meat through the grinder when making sausages seems to me to outweigh any pecuniary advantage. That is, the sausage could hardly weigh much more and the immediate effect of cooking shows the bread crumbs up. (I still remember the crozzled ends affectionately)

But I think that this practice is where 'both ends meat' comes from.

On the other hand, and slightly more sophisticated in thinking, is making the end of the weekly wage coincide with the end of the working week. (payday) That would be making both ends meet.

But it's "make ends meet"

I'm sure of it. At least in this case I'm going to put my foot down and insist.

 

[gauchecritic]

But it's "make ends meet"

I'm sure of it. At least in this case I'm going to put my foot down and insist.

Okay then. what about the definition of meet following an old meaning. (to mangle Shakespear) 'It is meet that this should be so."
Proper or fitting. (fit is another badly used word as in 'survival of the fittest') Maybe a happy circumstance as in 'Well met'

To justify means towards ends. Making both ends meet. The method should be congruent with the outcome.

 

[Recidiva]

Okay then. what about the definition of meet following an old meaning. (to mangle Shakespear) 'It is meet that this should be so."
Proper or fitting. (fit is another badly used word as in 'survival of the fittest') Maybe a happy circumstance as in 'Well met'

To justify means towards ends. Making both ends meet. The method should be congruent with the outcome.

I always think of it as a tailor trying to scrounge enough cloth on a pattern to fit. If you don't have enough cloth, the ends won't meet.

I'd hate to have to rearrange my entire universe.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I always think of it as a tailor trying to scrounge enough cloth on a pattern to fit. If you don't have enough cloth, the ends won't meet.

I'd hate to have to rearrange my entire universe.

It seems to be specifically financial, as in making the end of one budgetary amount meet the beginning of the next...

"Survival of the fittest" has created a lot of misunderstanding, because the word "Fit" has changed meaning just a bit. Darwin meant "the organism that best fits it's niche," not "The biggest, strongest, baddest organism."

 

[Recidiva]

It seems to be specifically financial, as in making the end of one budgetary amount meet the beginning of the next...

"Survival of the fittest" has created a lot of misunderstanding, because the word "Fit" has changed meaning just a bit. Darwin meant "the organism that best fits it's niche," not "The biggest, strongest, baddest organism."

Or "the one that didn't get wiped out by a meteor strike."

That's a hard one to predict.

 

[CeriseNoire]

One of my few extra credit options consists of students picking an idiom and researching its origin to present to the class. Sometimes they surprise me.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Or "the one that didn't get wiped out by a meteor strike."

That's a hard one to predict.

Naw, that's most often "the littlest, most reclusive one, that was waaay down in its burrow (and extremely widespread) when it happened"...

 

[shereads]

How about the biggest, baddest, importantest why-is-it-called-that word: Why do they call it a blowjob when it mostly involves sucking?

"I didn't think it was possible, but this both sucks and blows at the same time!"

~ Bart Simpson

 

[shereads]

One explanation I've heard:
During WWI, the prostitutes in Paris were divided into a red-light district for the enlisted and a blue-light district for the officers. Oral servicing wasn't available in the production-line bordellos of the red-light district, so it became known as a Bleu-Job -- which American doughboys quickly corrupted into blow-job.

Why doughboys?

And why isn't it blow cheese?

 

[cloudy]

And why isn't it blow cheese?

that's just...ewwww

 

[only_more_so]

You might be interested in this website: A compendium of lost words

Those just sound made up! But I love them!