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I occasionally hear the word broad still used to refer to women, and I'm always offended, but it occurred to me that I had no idea what the origins of the term were. Was broad always a derogatory usage, or am I just over-sensitive?
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Because of this negative association, and the rise of women in athletics, the track and field broad jump was changed to the long jump c. 1967. Broadside (nautical), 1591, "the side of a ship above the water, between the bow and the quarter." Broadcast, originally "scattering seed" (1767), applied to radio waves...
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SlangSite.com is a dictionary of slang, webspeak, made up words, and colloquialisms. Browse our listings, or submit your own slang words to our site. ... e-: Prefix used to describe anything related to the Internet. Example: My e-girlfriend sent me an e-mail about our ... e-anticiparcellation: Anticipation of electronic mail.
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WARNING! Mr. Sinatra works blue, even in the afterlife. This chat is not for the easily offended, especially those who don't like hearing women referred to as "broads."
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www.apeculture.com/requiems/sinatra.htm
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Broad originally meant a ticket (admission, transport, meal, etc.). The word was then applied to prostitutes (a pimp's meal ticket), then to women of loose morals, and eventually to women in general. It dates to 1911. Why a ticket was called a broad is uncertain. ... Playing cards were also called broads, so the similarity...
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A bachelor is viewed as a man who has it all while a spinster is a woman who is unable to get a man, usually viewed as ugly and unwanted (Eschholz 1990). Women are referred to in large part by their looks or parts of their bodies. ... Women are referred to as babes, chicks, broads.
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The iconic long legged beauties associated with hard rock get an extra special treatment in the track “Wine of Sin,” which almost crosses the line to become a love song, if there ever could be a love song that referred to women as broads and had lyrics like “Show me your tits!” For that part of the night when...
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PLINC MU2-2346: $20 ... This fine cotton garment commemorates the golden age of advertising design by proudly displaying the original Murray Hill phone number for Photo-Lettering, Inc. ... while celebrating the creative suffrage enjoyed by women throughout the commercial art industry.
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To begin with, the women are uniformly referred to as c--ts, broads, chicks, and bimbos. Then they are all either beautiful or "gorgeous." Then they are all either thin, cold, intelligent, and castrating (these are always the wife) or they are dark, sensual, and mindless (these are the mistress).
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