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Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn't refer to women at all-it originated as a gender-neutral word for genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into an insult directed at females is the case for tons more terms, including hussy, which simply meant housewife;
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Wordslut, Amanda Montell
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- Wordslut
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Amanda Montell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0062868888
- ISBN13
- 9780062868886
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, History, Women, Feminism, Linguistics
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn't refer to women at all-it originated as a gender-neutral word for genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into an insult directed at females is the case for tons more terms, including hussy, which simply meant housewife;