Ok, time to lighten up the mood (at least mine) away from my recent ncns...

For those who might not know, etymology is the study of the origin of words. So it studies how words become the way they are, and how they acquire their meanings. Questions like this is what etymology answers.

So here is the bcd version. How come a "blowjob" is call a "blow"job?...since technically it is a sucking action not a blowing action...anyone care to impart some wisdom?

Answer a question or post a question...all just for some fun...maybe we'll all learn a thing or two along the way. Happy holidays.

blow job
also blowjob, 1961, from blow + job. Exactly which blow is meant is the subject of some debate; the word might have begun as a euphemism for suck (thus from blow (1)), or it might refer to the explosive climax of an orgasm (thus blow (2)). Unlike much sex slang, its date of origin probably is pretty close to the date it first is attested in print: as recently as the early 1950s, military pilots could innocently talk of their jet planes as blow jobs according to the "Thesaurus of American Slang." Cf. blow (v.1).


So does this mean I get a free night with the lady of my choose?

from the book sexy origins & intimate things:
To many Americans in the 1940s and 1950s a "blow job" was a faster-then-the-speed-of-sound "jet airplane." It took off and gave everyone nearby a "blow job." The Thesaurus of American Slang (1953) records an example of this usage from an issue of the San Francisco Examiner in 1945: "A P-59 jet propelled Airacomet, affectionately called the 'blow job' by flyers, will make several flights in 1946."

Linguists think the sexual connotation of "blow job" evolved from "blowoff," an expression meaning to finish off, to climax, to end. "Blowoff" in this sense is related to "blow off steam," to put an end to a emotionally frustrating experience. When a prostitute gave a client a blow job she was helping him "blow off" the steam of sexual arousal. In the 1930s, street-walkers offered oral sex with the phrase "I'll blow you off." It suggests 'I'll cool you down,' 'I'll release your steam.'

Haha arizbob. If I have the resources to offer people nights with the ladies I think I'll be very busy right now...lol