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And dick used to be short for detective, and used by private investigators like Dick Tracy. Then there is the implied Dick pun, like "Magnum" PI, where Magnum
by downrightmike 2y ago
And dick used to be short for detective, and used by private investigators like Dick Tracy. Then there is the implied Dick pun, like "Magnum" PI, where Magnum is a "Big Dick"
- nielsbot 2y agoWiktionary says this sense is shortened from “detective”, not related to the name FWIW https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dick https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dick (see English etymology #2)
- dylan604 2y agoWasn't a detective written as dic without the k? Clearly, the k was going to be used because everyone's inner 12 year old
- madcaptenor 2y agoAlso "dic" just doesn't look like an English word - compare kick, lick, sick, tick, etc. There are English words ending in -ic but they tend to be longer, Latinate ones.
- ASUfool 2y agoEpic mic drop there.
- madcaptenor 2y agoOK, that's actually a good example, but "mic" is a clipping of "microphone" and isn't pronounced the same anyway.
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