Author: Tony Werten
Date: 14:43:17 03/24/01
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On March 24, 2001 at 14:37:35, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 24, 2001 at 12:53:10, Jay Rinde wrote: > >>dickhead noun [C] TABOO SLANG >> a stupid person >> You dickhead - you've dented the back of my car! >> ( Cambridge International >>Dictionary of English ) >> >>I looked it up in a Large American Dictionary, and the worst definition I got >>was a foolish person. I don't understand what all the ccc people are gagging >>about. A dickhead can be a stupid or a foolish person. It might not be good to >>call some one foolish or stupid, but I've been called worse on ccc and no one >>objected. > > >I guess the objections do not come from the sense of the word but from the >litteral translation of the two words composing it. > > dick (look at the definition in your dictionnary) > head > >...and try to figure out to what part of the body it is referring. > >What's funny is that we have approximately the same word in french. The word >refers to the same part of the body, and has the same meaning. Same in dutch. Only difference is that the bodypart and the person are just one word, not composed of two. Tony > >BTW I have absolutely no objection about the use of the word by Bruce in the >context it was used. > > > > Christophe
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