Another kind of buddy

[Joel S. Berson]

If "friend with benefits" postdates "roommate with benefits", then it
would seem to be more friendly than "buddy with benefits" or "fuck buddy".

Joel

At 6/12/2007 11:54 AM, you wrote:
>At 11:23 AM -0400 6/12/07, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>>On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:14:15AM -0500, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>>>  I received a suggestive email this morning asking if I was looking for a
>>>  "fuck buddy," which got me interested in that phrase. After
>>> searching Google
>>>  Books I found a clear citation from 1988.
>>
>>OED published this in 2004; our earliest quotation is from
>>1973. It's got the metalanguage note "esp. among male
>>homosexuals",
>
>there's also the more orientation-neutral (or heterosexually biased?)
>"friend(s) with benefits" that's been getting a lot of...play lately.
>
>Also no romantic relationship, but (given the difference between
>"buddy" and "friend") perhaps more of a grounding in friendship per
>se.  The FWB, that is, is basically a friend whom one occasionally
>fucks, the FB I imagine is primarily an occasional sex partner who
>may also be a friend.  I could be wrong about that, of course.
>
>LH
>
>>and the definition "a friend or acquaintance
>>with whom a person (regularly) engages in sex without the
>>expectation of a romantic relationship".
>>
>>Jesse Sheidlower
>>OED
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------
>>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org