QUILTBAG (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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When I read it, the similarity to "douchebag" immediately popped into mind.  I can't think of any word used to refer to people that ends in -bag that wouldn't run the risk of being perceived as pejorative (scumbag, "you old bag", dirtbag, windbag).  Moneybags, maybe, is positive. 

See OED:
Bag -- slang (orig. U.S.). A disparaging term for a woman; (originally) a sexually promiscuous woman; (later) an unattractive or elderly woman; = baggage n. 6.

Quiltbag may carry too much baggage to gain traction.

But, as Wilson says,
Youneverknow.


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> Maybe because, when used rather than (as here) mentioned, =
> "{You're/I'm/she's/he's} a QUILTBAG" sounds like an insult, albeit an =
> obscure one.
> 
> LH
> 
> On Aug 7, 2014, at 9:44 AM, David Barnhart wrote:
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> > Interesting.  It appears to have a way to go.  Only 5 publications in
> >LexisNexis and three of them are from Australia.
> >=20
> > It's in the Urban Dictionary, for whatever that is worth.
> >=20
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> > Bill Mullins
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> > Subject: QUILTBAG
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> > Poster:       Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      QUILTBAG
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> > This is a new one on me:
> > " It stands for Queer/Questioning=3D2C Undecided=3D2C Intersex=3D2C =
> Lesbian=3D2C Tr=3D
> > ansgender/Transsexual=3D2C Bisexual=3D2C Allied/Asexual=3D2C =
> Gay/Genderqueer. It =3D
> > is meant to be a more inclusive term than GLBT/LGBT and to be more =
> pronounc=3D
> > eable (and memorable) than some of the other variations or extensions
> > =
> on th=3D
> > e GLBT/LGBT abbreviation."
> > http://queerdictionary.tumblr.com/post/3899608042/quiltbag
> > 		 	   		  =3D
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