[Ads-l] sideboob

[Ben Zimmer]

OED added "side boob" in its March 2016 update, with the 1994 Mike Myers
quote as the earliest cite.

https://public.oed.com/blog/march-2016-update-new-words-notes/

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 6:24 PM Baker, John <
000014a9c79c3f97-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> It’s a popular term in certain venues.  Urban Dictionary has it from
> September 17, 2005,
> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sideboob:
>
> A view of the female breast seen from a side; generally under
> loosely-fitting clothes. Very titillating (pun intended) and sexual without
> showing any overt nudity.
>
> There is so much sideboob at Los Angeles awards shows!
>
> My brother's g/f's sideboob totally distracted me from my own g/f.
>
>
> Almost all published uses postdate the Urban Dictionary posting, but
> NewsBank has an outlier example from the Sunday Times, January 30, 1994, in
> an article discussing token “babe” roles in movies and relying in part on
> an interview with the actor Mike Myers:
>
> He [sc. Myers] thinks the American actress Heather Locklear is a babe.  So
> is his mother-in-law, so is Farrah Fawcett she was the first woman he saw
> on a poster where he could see what he refers to as “side boob”.
>
>
> I’m not sure what poster Myers was referring to; the famous poster of
> Fawcett in a red swimsuit emphasizes her breasts but does not contain
> sideboob, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett_red_swimsuit_poster.
> As for Myers’s mother-in-law, that was Linda Richman, who was also the
> source of an affectionate parody character of the same name that Myers had
> created for Saturday Night Live.  Richman is not otherwise particularly
> famous, although she is a public speaker and author.
>
>
> John Baker
>
> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of
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