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An unmentioned subcategory is words that that sound or look like taboo words, but are actually unrelated: "niggardly", "Gaylord", "fag" as in cigarette (from "f
by dustintrex 5y ago
An unmentioned subcategory is words that that sound or look like taboo words, but are actually unrelated: "niggardly", "Gaylord", "fag" as in cigarette (from "fag end", unrelated to "faggot"), etc.
- moonchild 5y agoA 'faggot' is also a bundle of wood.
- mdp2021 5y ago
- dustintrex 5y agoYes, but this appears to be the origin of the pejorative: bundle of sticks -> an old woman collecting sticks -> a man who acts like an old woman -> homosexual.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoThis is quite a far fetched explanation.
- thematrixturtle 5y ago
- mdp2021 5y ago
- baud147258 5y agoI'm not seeing you provide a better explanation
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI don't have one, but that's really not grounds to believe the first thing anyone tells you.
- madaxe_again 5y agoIt’s also a bundle of anything - including tobacco, which is where fag comes from. Derived from the same root as “fasces” and therefore fascism.
- genericacct 5y ago