{"id":883,"date":"2012-05-15T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2012-05-17T00:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T23:50:21","slug":"compound-fractures-dirty-oed-entry-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"Compound Fractures: Dirty OED Entry 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m looking at verb-noun compounds in English, and there are a number of endocentric compounds that begin with the verb blow<\/em>. Blow<\/strong> comes from OE bl\u00e1wan<\/em>, and shows up in a lot of endocentric compounds, which makes sense, since it is a Germanic word. (Trust me on that.)<\/p>\n

Blowgun (<\/em>which comes from blowpipe),<\/em>\u00a0blowtorch (<\/em>which comes from\u00a0blowlamp)\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0blowfish<\/em> are some of the common Modern English forms that use blow. <\/em>Then of course there is\u00a0blowjob<\/em>, which my friend Jason<\/a> thought up when I told him I was looking for verb-noun compounds in English. This tricked me into saying “Hmm, okay, I’ll look into blowjobs<\/del>” in public. (Between that discussion and his political-ethical considerations about what makes necrophilia disgusting and illegal, “Hey Jason, how’s necrophilia going?<\/del>” we seem to have conversations that are quite dangerous when out of context. But he’s cool. Check out his new\u00a0vlog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Blowjob<\/em> is first attested in 1961, while hand job<\/em> (a noun-noun compound) first appeared in 1939. Both are American in origin (U! S! A!). Thus, it is very likely that blow job<\/em> is modeled after the –job<\/em> pattern of sex acts, rather than being independently created as a verb-noun compound.<\/p>\n

And to top it all off, I found this little charmer with one citation from 1885…\u00a0yes, it’s\u00a0blow-cock.\u00a0<\/strong>It really could NOT look more dirty if it tried, but apparently it is a boiler component. The definition even sounds like a euphemism…<\/p>\n

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So there it is. A dirty dip into etymology.<\/p>\n

(All of the data from this post comes from oed.com.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m looking at verb-noun compounds in English, and there are a number of endocentric compounds that begin with the verb blow. Blow comes from OE bl\u00e1wan, and shows up in a lot of endocentric compounds, which makes sense, since it is a Germanic word. (Trust me on that.) Blowgun (which comes from blowpipe),\u00a0blowtorch (which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,211,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compounds","category-sex","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}