'douchebag' ??
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hoochiscrazy — 15 years ago(March 26, 2011 07:45 AM)
I was really surprised to hear the word "Douchebag" being used in this film. I don't know for some reason I imagined that term would have originated later than the mid 80's. Guess I was wrong! (Just a random thought).
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mattster12 — 14 years ago(September 20, 2011 05:23 PM)
I'm infinitely more interested in the answer to this question, regarding it's use in the mid-1930s, even though I originally was wondering the same thing as the OP.
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kaneforgov — 14 years ago(November 30, 2011 12:16 PM)
Its possible it was used as a pejorative term as early as the 1930s or 40s although it appears it wasnt widely used as an insult until the 1960s.
The 1951 classic novel
From Here to Eternity
by James Jones used it as an adjective;
The trouble with you, Pete, the voice that did not seem to come with him but from that cigaret said savagely, is that you cant see further than that
douchebag
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tyrexden — 12 years ago(August 28, 2013 09:54 AM)
i was a little surprised as well. The first time i ever heard it as an insult was Revenge of the Nerds (1984), where Booger says Stan Gable looks like his mom's old douchebag, but even there he wasn't calling him a douchebag outright, just comparing him to one I bet its a New York thing.
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dlynch843 — 10 years ago(February 13, 2016 09:17 AM)
George Carlin, from New York, said 'douchebag' was slang for any female: 'He brought two douchebags with him.' Maybe it then became an insult in the 60s, when I first heard it used as an insult, you douchebag.
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BrianEJanssen — 9 years ago(September 03, 2016 07:47 PM)
I did a double take when I heard that, too! I figured it was a mistake of some kind, but when I saw your post here I looked it up and was surprised to find the term being used before 1900
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=douchebag&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cdouchebag%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdouchebag%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BDouchebag%3B%2Cc0