This is true. That was what the term originally meant. But, meaning changes over time.
Like in a personal peeve of my own. POG.
There's no fucking such term as POG except in the minds of idiot kids these days.
It was Pogue. It came from Poguee which was Spanish American War slang for a whore in the Manila, Philipines area used by US Sailors and Marines.
That's where the term Poguee Bait came from. Poguee Bait was hard candy that US servicement in that time period would bring loads of with them when they were stationed in the PI because a Poguee would give up her goods in exchange for a chunk of candy.
That's also where Candy Ass comes from.
By the 1930s, Pogue meant weak piece of shit that couldn't do his job. Or someone so "fay" that he'd drop trou and bend over for a pat on the head or a piece of candy.
Infantrymen, as well as non infantry, can be pogues. Every platoon has at least one. A weak piece of shit that can not be relyed upon and who's a Blue Falcon through and through. Everyting is always someone else's fault and when it comes time for hard training, he's at sick call or on a light duty chit.
Non infantry are REMFs. Rear Echelon Mother Fuckers.
Now, because idiots can't be bothered to keep up with their tribe's history, not only does POG (People Other Than Grunts is POG? Who the fuck invented that bit of idiocy?) mean non infantry in general, but the USMC has a Commandant dead set on reducing the USMC to nothing more than the USN's international coast guard ship/boat checkers and boarders.
Weak.
Because stupid.
Semper Mother Fucking Fi.
Even if it's only a slogan now days.
(Heh. See what I did there? This Blue Falcon of a Commandant is the result of and fault of all you kids these days that sucked the POG cock. You got institutionally weak and now corrupt incompetent weak rules the roost. All. Your. Fault.)
In my six years, I spent it about half and half. 3 years as an 0351, 3 years as an 0231.
In the early '80s, getting caught discussing Sun Tzu with my squaddies by the company Gunny when I should have been playing spades... ended up having repercussions.
Well, back in the day it was the heart breakers and bunker busters MOS. Infantry Assaultman. Also, Assaultman specialized in anti-armor. Back in the day, we even trained up in CAAT (Close Assaut Anti-Tank) with improvised munitions.
Then, it became the SWAT wannabee MOS during the latest rounds of unpleasantness where it became all about door kicking with explosives.
When I was in middle school, kids would call me a faggot and I honestly would ask, why are you calling me a bundle of sticks? That seemed to spur more kids calling me a faggot. I had no idea what it meant until high school.
Tee hee - thanks for the all caps and exclamation points - nice touch
I just like the word pusillanimous (then again, who wouldn't? :)
Here's the data from etymonline, my go-to nerdsite:
pussy (n.1)
"cat," by 1690s, a diminutive of puss (n.1)*, also used of a rabbit (1715). As a term of endearment for a girl or woman, from 1580s (also used of effeminate men), and applied childishly to anything soft and furry. To play pussy was World War II RAF slang for "take advantage of cloud cover, jumping from cloud to cloud to shadow a potential victim or avoid recognition."
Related entries & more
pussy (n.2)
slang for "female pudenda," by 1879, but probably older; perhaps from Old Norse puss "pocket, pouch" (compare Low German puse "vulva"), or perhaps instead from the cat word (see pussy (n.1)) on the notion of "soft, warm, furry thing;" compare French le chat, which also has a double meaning, feline and genital. Earlier uses are difficult to distinguish from pussy (n.1), e.g.:
The word pussie is now used of a woman [Philip Stubbes, "The Anatomie of Abuses," 1583]
And songs such as "Puss in a Corner" (1690, attributed to D'Urfey) clearly play on the double sense of the word for ribald effect. But the absence of pussy in Grose and other early slang works argues against the vaginal sense being generally known before late 19c., as does its frequent use as a term of endearment in mainstream literature, as in:
"What do you think, pussy?" said her father to Eva. [Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 1852]
Pussy-whipped "hen-pecked" is attested by 1956 (Middle English had cunt-beaten "impotent," in reference to a man, mid-15c.).
*Here's the entry for puss (n.1):
"cat," 1520s, but probably much older than the record, perhaps imitative of the hissing sound commonly used to get a cat's attention or the noise made by the cat in hissing. The same or similar sound is a conventional name for a cat in Germanic languages and as far off as Afghanistan; it is the root of the principal word for "cat" in Rumanian (pisica) and secondary words in Lithuanian (puž, word used for calling a cat), Low German (puus), Swedish dialect katte-pus, Irish puisin "a kitten," etc.
Applied to a girl or woman from c. 1600, originally in a negative sense, implying unpleasant cat-like qualities, but by mid-19c. in affectionate use.
The little puss seems already to have airs enough to make a husband as miserable as it's a law of nature for a quiet man to be when he marries a beauty. ["George Eliot," "Adam Bede," 1859]
The etymology online site kicks the crap out of randomly thumbing through the dictionary for fun new words...you get the words PLUS in-depth origins and histories
“The usual story, which is quoted from one end of the blogosphere to the other, goes something like this: ‘cunt’ is a sacred ancient word derived from the terms cunti or kunda, titles of the Hindu goddess Kali.
“The truth is more down-to-earth. There’s no evidence that ‘cunt’ comes from the title of a goddess, Hindu or otherwise. It’s a very old English word going back to the Middle Ages, when it meant, as it does today, ‘the female external genital organs,’ according to the OED. The earliest surviving reference (spelled ‘cunte’) appeared around 1325 in the Proverbs of Hendyng, a collection of religious and moral advice from the 1200s and perhaps earlier. In one of the precepts (I’m roughly translating the Middle English), women are advised to ‘Give thy cunte wisely and ask for marriage.’”
The funny thing is that “Mous” close to word “mouse” is translated into Dutch as “muis” = 🐭
The word “muis” is a slang for that certain part of the woman’s anatomy.
So my thought here is that there must have been an original or first language in the our past where all our languages stems from
Just so we're clear I'm referring to the anatomy one.
This
This is true. That was what the term originally meant. But, meaning changes over time.
Like in a personal peeve of my own. POG.
There's no fucking such term as POG except in the minds of idiot kids these days.
It was Pogue. It came from Poguee which was Spanish American War slang for a whore in the Manila, Philipines area used by US Sailors and Marines.
That's where the term Poguee Bait came from. Poguee Bait was hard candy that US servicement in that time period would bring loads of with them when they were stationed in the PI because a Poguee would give up her goods in exchange for a chunk of candy.
That's also where Candy Ass comes from.
By the 1930s, Pogue meant weak piece of shit that couldn't do his job. Or someone so "fay" that he'd drop trou and bend over for a pat on the head or a piece of candy.
Infantrymen, as well as non infantry, can be pogues. Every platoon has at least one. A weak piece of shit that can not be relyed upon and who's a Blue Falcon through and through. Everyting is always someone else's fault and when it comes time for hard training, he's at sick call or on a light duty chit.
Non infantry are REMFs. Rear Echelon Mother Fuckers.
Now, because idiots can't be bothered to keep up with their tribe's history, not only does POG (People Other Than Grunts is POG? Who the fuck invented that bit of idiocy?) mean non infantry in general, but the USMC has a Commandant dead set on reducing the USMC to nothing more than the USN's international coast guard ship/boat checkers and boarders.
Weak. Because stupid.
Semper Mother Fucking Fi. Even if it's only a slogan now days.
(Heh. See what I did there? This Blue Falcon of a Commandant is the result of and fault of all you kids these days that sucked the POG cock. You got institutionally weak and now corrupt incompetent weak rules the roost. All. Your. Fault.)
^this guy was in the rear with the gear. Jk bro love you
Heh.
Well...
In my six years, I spent it about half and half. 3 years as an 0351, 3 years as an 0231.
In the early '80s, getting caught discussing Sun Tzu with my squaddies by the company Gunny when I should have been playing spades... ended up having repercussions.
You spent half as an 0351? What is that MOS?
Well, back in the day it was the heart breakers and bunker busters MOS. Infantry Assaultman. Also, Assaultman specialized in anti-armor. Back in the day, we even trained up in CAAT (Close Assaut Anti-Tank) with improvised munitions.
Then, it became the SWAT wannabee MOS during the latest rounds of unpleasantness where it became all about door kicking with explosives.
Now, it no longer exists, iirc.
Dicktionary
Google pulled it up as an accurate definition of Pusillanimous.
That said, it is a hilarious meme because NPC's can't handle a double meaning.
When they picked a piece of anatomy to hang off a truck hitch I don't believe they landed on pussy
Dear Faggots,
A faggot is a small piece of kindling that is used to create a fire. A big, glorious fire.
Yeah, and fag used to mean cigarette.
Still does, in UK.
When I was in middle school, kids would call me a faggot and I honestly would ask, why are you calling me a bundle of sticks? That seemed to spur more kids calling me a faggot. I had no idea what it meant until high school.
This describes many sites well: https://youtu.be/q34Qxl5HINg?t=16
Grab them by the pusillanimous...
Under rated comment. I give two keks up.
🐸
Holy shit, I did not know that
Me neither. I bet a lot of people didn’t know that.
It's not though.
My god you're dense. Pussy is used as an adjective too you muffin
Sounds Tolkienish to me LoL
Even if it isn't the actual origin, for me now it is.
We've been pronouncing it wrong this whole time. It's pyo͞osə!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pusillanimous
Underrated comment.
Approved!
/wordnerd
Tee hee - thanks for the all caps and exclamation points - nice touch
I just like the word pusillanimous (then again, who wouldn't? :)
Here's the data from etymonline, my go-to nerdsite:
pussy (n.1)
"cat," by 1690s, a diminutive of puss (n.1)*, also used of a rabbit (1715). As a term of endearment for a girl or woman, from 1580s (also used of effeminate men), and applied childishly to anything soft and furry. To play pussy was World War II RAF slang for "take advantage of cloud cover, jumping from cloud to cloud to shadow a potential victim or avoid recognition." Related entries & more pussy (n.2)
slang for "female pudenda," by 1879, but probably older; perhaps from Old Norse puss "pocket, pouch" (compare Low German puse "vulva"), or perhaps instead from the cat word (see pussy (n.1)) on the notion of "soft, warm, furry thing;" compare French le chat, which also has a double meaning, feline and genital. Earlier uses are difficult to distinguish from pussy (n.1), e.g.:
And songs such as "Puss in a Corner" (1690, attributed to D'Urfey) clearly play on the double sense of the word for ribald effect. But the absence of pussy in Grose and other early slang works argues against the vaginal sense being generally known before late 19c., as does its frequent use as a term of endearment in mainstream literature, as in:
Pussy-whipped "hen-pecked" is attested by 1956 (Middle English had cunt-beaten "impotent," in reference to a man, mid-15c.).
*Here's the entry for puss (n.1):
"cat," 1520s, but probably much older than the record, perhaps imitative of the hissing sound commonly used to get a cat's attention or the noise made by the cat in hissing. The same or similar sound is a conventional name for a cat in Germanic languages and as far off as Afghanistan; it is the root of the principal word for "cat" in Rumanian (pisica) and secondary words in Lithuanian (puž, word used for calling a cat), Low German (puus), Swedish dialect katte-pus, Irish puisin "a kitten," etc.
Applied to a girl or woman from c. 1600, originally in a negative sense, implying unpleasant cat-like qualities, but by mid-19c. in affectionate use.
TIL a great resource to get lost in LoL
Oh heck yeah
The etymology online site kicks the crap out of randomly thumbing through the dictionary for fun new words...you get the words PLUS in-depth origins and histories
You are 100% spot on and correct. The etymologics of the word is well documented.
You are downvoted because you are an asshole.
Go back to PW please
I dont know. Ignore me.
Learned something new today!
I always thought it meant pussy cat, as in a scaredy cat.
“Don’t be so pusillanimous!”
Has a good ring too it.
The more you know.
🌠
Love learning new stuff
So how do I tell my girl I’m gonna wreck her pussy tonight?
Don't talk about it, be about it
Lo, thy woman of lust and wonderous fulfilment. On this eve of the twentiest of twenties, I claim thou pusillanimous wrecked.
(Please sign the dotted line)
Don’t be too intimidating, you don’t want her to get pusillanimous
Not Q related, but Q rated for quality!
Reeeeecon Ron. Cool name.
My word of the day! I'm ready for a nap now.
Updated my CV to say pusillanimous hound.
How DARE you use the English language correctly!! Now those with a niggardly grasp of the language are going to have a hissy fit!
I’m totally into pussy :)
Nah. Weak and lame. Pusy doesn't mean pussy. That said using the term pusy should be advised.
Slang:
Pussy
/ˌpyo͞osə/
One who is pusillanimous.
TIL
Ok. What is cunt short for?
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/11/c-word.html
Not necessarily a reduction.
“The usual story, which is quoted from one end of the blogosphere to the other, goes something like this: ‘cunt’ is a sacred ancient word derived from the terms cunti or kunda, titles of the Hindu goddess Kali.
“The truth is more down-to-earth. There’s no evidence that ‘cunt’ comes from the title of a goddess, Hindu or otherwise. It’s a very old English word going back to the Middle Ages, when it meant, as it does today, ‘the female external genital organs,’ according to the OED. The earliest surviving reference (spelled ‘cunte’) appeared around 1325 in the Proverbs of Hendyng, a collection of religious and moral advice from the 1200s and perhaps earlier. In one of the precepts (I’m roughly translating the Middle English), women are advised to ‘Give thy cunte wisely and ask for marriage.’”
The funny thing is that “Mous” close to word “mouse” is translated into Dutch as “muis” = 🐭 The word “muis” is a slang for that certain part of the woman’s anatomy.
So my thought here is that there must have been an original or first language in the our past where all our languages stems from
And here I always thought it was referring to pussycat (which likely has the same roots), some word-nerd I am
Correct answer.
Pussies can take a real pounding.
I saw one at Jurassic Park!
You'd have to be a dick to think pussy means something different.
I always use the word cunt just so no one get my meaning confused.