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- Broad American slang for a woman dates from the early 20th century, perhaps suggestive of a woman’s hips or possibly from the earlier American English expression an “abroad” wife or woman, signifying an illicit relationship with another woman, perhaps a slave, in the figurative sense of being “overseas” or “abroad”.
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Etymology Online offers that beaver in the gynecological sense is British slang dating from 1927, transferred from earlier meaning "a bearded man" (1910), or from the appearance of split beaver pelts.
In the 1740s, slang first crystallizes into a word with a very specific context and a distinctive range of related meanings, emerging as a word chiefly found in reports of the speech of an underclass of thieves, and beggars, and the itinerants who often associated with them and shared much of the same vocabulary.
Massachusett squa appears in the Massachusett Bible (printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1663) in Mark 10:6, translating "female,'' and in the plural form squaog in 1 Timothy 5:2 and 5:14, translating "younger women.''.
Slang sense of "woman" is by 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife, word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women.
Jun 1, 2013 · Here’s what we know about the origins of our sexual "dirty" words: PUS*Y. This Anglo-Saxon term is intriguing because it has a double derivation from two Old Norse-Old German words: “puss ...
Jun 12, 2020 · Broad is a slang term for a woman. It is sexist and connotes that the woman in question is sexually promiscuous. This sense of the word appears in criminal slang in the early twentieth century. The metaphor underlying the sense is uncertain, although there is an early guess that is plausible.
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The origin of the word slang itself is obscure; it first appeared in print around 1800, applied to the speech of disreputable and criminal classes in London. The term, however, was probably used much earlier.
