Oh my gosh, I'm getting addicted to this forum!!! :eek:
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Oh my gosh, I'm getting addicted to this forum!!! :eek:
It used to be sort of dead, you see.
LMAO :D It's a madhouse!!
Help, i cant keep up!
Hey, I just realized the Spanish word for girls is "chicas." Is that where the slang "chicks" derived from?
Wow, I better get off the computer soon and start doing my homework.
that's very cool. i often wondered where that slang came from, in fact that is written down as one of the things i wanted to ask the etymologist guy....very good observation.Quote:
Originally posted by ajoe
Hey, I just realized the Spanish word for girls is "chicas." Is that where the slang "chicks" derived from?
LOL actually, that may be so. But my AP English dude told us (when we read The Sun Also Rises *puke*) that it was brought back from France by the WWI soldiers. Because the French slang for hookers was "les poules" -- chickens.
hmmm...now im confused
thanks ever so much!
So does chicks mean hookers or what? *confused*
In the meantime, some guys sure are freaky. *shiver*
Thanks to the * thing I'm gonna stop using emoticons to express myself. :(
LoL. Well, I think the word "chicks" went through the same phase as the word "hoe" is now. Which some people use to describe all women. Which isn't nice. But I guess that's why "chick" is a traditionally guy thing to say. I think with the whole beat/rock'n'roll scene it started to mean just "girl."
I have only heard women referred to as chicks or hoes in movies.
I refer to women as chicks but usually only when I'm talking to friends and I am woman.
And back in the day my friends and I were gonna form a rock band that was antithetical to New Kids on the Block (that dates me doesn't it?) called New hoes in the 'hood.