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Old 03-08-2007, 01:08 PM   #1
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Some of my former coven girls used to refer to it as "noo-noo"
Are you sure they weren't saying "No! No!" ??
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Old 03-08-2007, 04:24 PM   #2
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Are you sure they weren't saying "No! No!" ??
I'm not allowed to solicit coven girls. I'm not that kind of priest. I leave that to the Catholics.
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Old 03-08-2007, 12:49 PM   #3
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Old 03-08-2007, 12:59 PM   #4
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Old 03-08-2007, 01:25 PM   #5
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And here's the spoiler from Wikipedia for those with a thirst for naughty words

Try as I might, I can't find any interesting origins for the use of the term "beaver". I have a dictionary of slang, but (a) I caan't find it right now and (b) it's British, so I'm betting it just gives the origin as American and leaves it at that. I can't google for the answer any more -I'm all britney-spears-bald-beavered out.


Edited to add: If beaver were of British origin, I bet it'd be rhyming slang to do with the Belvoir Hunt.
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Old 03-08-2007, 01:41 PM   #6
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Try as I might, I can't find any interesting origins for the use of the term "beaver". I have a dictionary of slang, but (a) I caan't find it right now and (b) it's British, so I'm betting it just gives the origin as American and leaves it at that. I can't google for the answer any more -I'm all britney-spears-bald-beavered out.
I'll make a note for myself. I've got a dictionary of profanity at home...
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Old 03-08-2007, 09:57 PM   #7
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I'll make a note for myself. I've got a dictionary of profanity at home...
Nothing definitive, but a possibility is that it's...
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... derived from beard, since beaver (meaning the pelt of the dam-building animal) is slang for beard, and beard has referred to the female pubic hair as well as male facial hair since at least the seventeenth century.
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Thus, beaver also is shorthand for beaver hat, and hat is another old byword for the female genitals ("hat," according to Grose, "because frequently felt"). Again, a nickname for the beaver (animal) is flat tail, and TAIL is a very old word for the female genitals (Chaucer used it in this sense in the fourteenth century). Moreover, small furry animals often serve as metaphors for the female genitals.
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Old 03-08-2007, 11:04 PM   #8
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Nothing definitive, but a possibility is that it's...
During my research.... I found comments that the slang for beard is Belvoir (pronounced Beaver) but I couldn't find out why

It seems there is no definitive answer -which just makes it the best term ever. Slang with no discerable origin but with an international understanding rocks
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Old 03-09-2007, 03:56 AM   #9
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Thus, beaver also is shorthand for beaver hat, and hat is another old byword for the female genitals ("hat," according to Grose, "because frequently felt").
Rhyming slang also raises its head here. Beaver hat = twat

Reminds me of a line in a League of Gentlemen sketch, "My wife has a fanny like a bear-trapper's hat."
Which I took to mean warm, hairy, and with very large flaps.
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Old 03-09-2007, 03:07 PM   #10
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Old 03-08-2007, 01:49 PM   #11
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If beaver were of British origin, I bet it'd be rhyming slang to do with the Belvoir Hunt.
I hadn't even thought of that!
Even if it's not true, it's far too good an idea to go to waste. I will solemnly quote it as fact in future.

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Old 03-08-2007, 01:57 PM   #12
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Even if it's not true, it's far too good an idea to go to waste. I will solemnly quote it as fact in future.
And that's why I love Sundae!

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Old 03-08-2007, 01:58 PM   #13
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Old 03-08-2007, 03:33 PM   #14
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I found this at the urban dictionary site. It explains the beaver analogy.

Beaver

A furry mammal that feeds off wood.
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Old 03-08-2007, 01:36 PM   #15
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