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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"How did tits become called boobs
which one came first though "
Both tits and boobs are birds.
Seriously, tits is surely a corruption of teats. Not so seriously, boobs because the written word sort of looks like breasts? |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Jugs for "woman's breasts" first recorded 1920 in Australian slang, short for milk jugs.
ahhh google's such a wonder innit???"
I would have thought it would be older than that. Surely the Australians just imported it? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Jugs for "woman's breasts" first recorded 1920 in Australian slang, short for milk jugs.
ahhh google's such a wonder innit???
I would have thought it would be older than that. Surely the Australians just imported it?"
could i find this in a history book somewhere hmm..tryna imagine the look on the librarians face as i ask this |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Jugs for "woman's breasts" first recorded 1920 in Australian slang, short for milk jugs.
ahhh google's such a wonder innit???
I would have thought it would be older than that. Surely the Australians just imported it?
could i find this in a history book somewhere hmm..tryna imagine the look on the librarians face as i ask this "
Just start with Chaucer and work your way through. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Jugs for "woman's breasts" first recorded 1920 in Australian slang, short for milk jugs.
ahhh google's such a wonder innit???
I would have thought it would be older than that. Surely the Australians just imported it?
could i find this in a history book somewhere hmm..tryna imagine the look on the librarians face as i ask this
Just start with Chaucer and work your way through."
guess ill be there a good while probe a whole section devoted to the father of english literature |
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