"Beginnings..."
I enjoy finding the origins of words and phrases. Here are a few I found.
Coochie-Coo, Hooch, Hoochy, Hootchy, Hootchie-Cootchie
Both in the sense of the female parts themselves and as in having sex, or "getting some..." The word is derived from an older form "couchee," meaning a "bed-time visit." It is derived from the French "couche," past participle of "coucher" = "to lay down." and is similar to such archaic English words as "couchant" = "lying down," "couch-fellow," = "bed-fellow" and the modern "couch" as a place to lie down (from the French "couche.") and the verb form meaning "to lie down." A "hoochie-momma" is a sexually promiscuous female. "The hootchy-cootchy" is a dance where the woman rotates her hips in a sexually suggestive manner.
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Dick
"fellow, lad, man," 1553, rhyming nickname for Rick, short for Richard, one of the commonest Eng. names, it has long been a synonym for "fellow," and so most of the slang senses are probably very old, but naturally hard to find in the surviving records. The meaning "penis" is attested from 1891 in British army slang
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Hussy
1530, "mistress of a household, housewife," of Middle English. husewif, from huse "house" + wif "wife." Gradually broadened to mean "any woman or girl," and by 1650 was being applied to "a woman or girl who shows casual or improper behavior," and a general derogatory sense had overtaken the word by 1900’s. "It is common to use housewife in a good, and huswife or hussy in a bad sense."
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Johnson
"penis," 1863, perhaps related to British slang John Thomas, which has the same meaning (1887).
"John Thomas" is slang in the UK for one's penis. The term derives from the name the leading man in D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover gave to his own appendage. The book was made famous by the obscenity trial it landed Penguin Books in during the 1950s.
-- Modified on 5/20/2006 2:48:20 PM
