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<p dir="auto"><strong>hoochiscrazy</strong> — <em>15 years ago(March 26, 2011 07:45 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">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).<br />
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<p dir="auto">I love the way young people think they invented language, especially pejorative terms.<br />
Liked nobody cursed before 1989.</p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1694723</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1694723</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:38:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to &#x27;douchebag&#x27; ?? on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:38:17 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>BrianEJanssen</strong> — <em>9 years ago(September 03, 2016 07:47 PM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">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<br />
<a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&amp;year_end=2008&amp;corpus=15&amp;smoothing=7&amp;case_insensitive=on&amp;content=douchebag&amp;direct_url=t4%3B%2Cdouchebag%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdouchebag%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BDouchebag%3B%2Cc0" rel="nofollow ugc">https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&amp;year_end=2008&amp;corpus=15&amp;smoothing=7&amp;case_insensitive=on&amp;content=douchebag&amp;direct_url=t4%3B%2Cdouchebag%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdouchebag%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BDouchebag%3B%2Cc0</a></p>
]]></description><link>https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1694722</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://filmglance.com/discuss/post/1694722</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[fgadmin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:38:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to &#x27;douchebag&#x27; ?? on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:38:16 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><strong>dlynch843</strong> — <em>10 years ago(February 13, 2016 09:17 AM)</em></p>
<p dir="auto">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.</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.<br />
The 1951 classic novel<br />
From Here to Eternity<br />
by James Jones used it as an adjective;<br />
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<br />
douchebag<br />
nose of yours.</p>
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<p dir="auto">It's used in another Allen film 'Radio Days' set in the early 1940s too.<br />
"I re-evaluated our lives. I got a 10, you got a 6"</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.<br />
"Who do you think you are, Bill Clinton? You're a comptroller!"</p>
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<p dir="auto">Not to quibble, but the real question is: did the term exist, and was it widely used as an insult, in the mid-1930s, when the movie is set?<br />
We know it existed when the movie was made, since it's there.</p>
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