Another kind of buddy

[Scot LaFaive]

The one time I don't check OED first....

Scot LaFaive


>From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
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>Subject: Re: Another kind of buddy
>Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:23:35 -0400
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>Poster:       Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
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>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".
>
>Jesse Sheidlower
>OED
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