Another kind of buddy

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 6/12/07, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> 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", and the definition "a friend or acquaintance
> with whom a person (regularly) engages in sex without the
> expectation of a romantic relationship".

Not a primary source, but David Bret's _Rock Hudson_ (2004) refers to
a "fuck-buddy bash" organized by Hudson's agent Henry Willson in 1956.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1861058551/
(p. 92)


--Ben Zimmer

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