I'm a caucasian, and I think the phrase peckerwood is really funny, but I don't understand the word's origin.  \n\nDoes anyone know where the phrase came from?
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My understanding it comes from wood pecker.
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At least you got a sense of humor about it. \n\nHere's the best I could find after a couple minutes of searching:\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdick.html\n\nLooks like you'll have to go back about 800 years in time. Better to go and kill the dick who made it a slang term in the late 1800s...
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Yo... Right on man! Absolutely spot on. In the land of the free, where everyone is equal they need terms like that.\nI learnt the term 'male Caucasian' from watching American TV. Can't they say 'white man?'
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I think you mean bollocks.it is a slang word for the testicles.
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The root of the word Caucasian: \n"  1807, from Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas; applied to the "white" race 1795 (in Ger.) by Ger. anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, because their supposed ancestral homeland lay there; since abandoned as a historical/anthropological term. Lit. meaning "resident or native of the Caucasus" is from 1843. The mountain range name is from Gk. kaukhasis, from Scythian kroy-khasis, lit. "(the mountain) ice-shining."  "\n\nThe fact that the word 'Caucasian' has the word 'Asian' in it is a coincidence, it is in fact the word for 'being a native of the Caucasuss Mountains'. If you're from American, you're American. If you're from Canada, you're Canadian. If you're from Caucasuss, you're Caucasian.
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It came from Tarzan movies and TV shows...that's where your dad more than likely got it from.  As to whether it's a real word, I cannot say, but if it is, I'd guess Swahili
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I've heard it all my life, for sure. \n\nI found it for you, at the infoplease dictionary.\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0364702.html\n\ncat•a•wam•pus\n\nPronunciation: (kat"u-wom'pus), [key] Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. \n\n—adj. \n1. askew; awry. \n2. positioned diagonally; cater-cornered. \n\n—adv. \ndiagonally; obliquely: We took a shortcut and walked catawampus across the field. Also,cattywampus.
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It's cockney rhyming slang - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_rhyming_slang\n\n\n\nTo "Pop" is the slang word for "Pawn". Weasel is derived from "weasel and stoat" meaning coat. It was traditional for even poor people to own a suit, which they wore as their 'Sunday Best'. When times were hard they would pawn their suit, or coat, on a Monday and claim it back before Sunday. Hence the term " Pop goes the Weasel"
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I am not so sure about this one, LOL! I believe it goes back to victorian times, and new settlement. People have always related anatomy to animal aspects, and the slang terms and reference to the male genetalia as that of a "wood" substance, being consumed by the only known mamal, that being the "beaver".. Any other really challenging questions! LOL!
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I believe it is a British dialect called "cockney".  Me and my husband have this same arguement everytime those commercials come on! This is weird, but go to this website, it's the only one I could find with an example in audio (its a story told in cockney, sounds like the gecko!) You have to listen for a minute or so to get to it.
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I reference apes when I see hairy White guys on the beach here in Florida, but that has nothing to do with this, does it..lol.\n\nI think we need to make fun of ourselves.  We are so damn sensitive about stereotypes that unintelligent people put on us to make themselves feel better that it is crippling us as a race.  And making fun of ourselves might make us work toward doing something about the stereotypes that ARE true.
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Apparently some dictionary of slang terms named it "slang of the year".\n\nIt just goes to show you what a culture of celebrity we have become in America.
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Well, besides referring to the thing trees are made out of, when it's used and people react to it as if it's impolite, they're talking about an erection.\n\n"Sporting wood" and "having a woody" are both slang phrases for a male having an erect penis.
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I am white and I would never use that word. Among our friends, I can't think of anyone who uses that word so please do not classify all whites in the same category, okay? Oh to answer your question. NO, it is not OKAY!
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This is the first time I've ever heard this version of the joke. I don't know what this is right here, but it makes absolutely no sense. \n\nThere were three guys walking down the street and ran acroos this farm house. The lady said they could stay in the house and have breakfast in the morning but if not they had to stay in the barn. \n\nWHY would they have to stay in the barn?? What were the guys suppose to do in order to stay in the house???\n\nI cannot express this enough; when posting a joke, write it correctly.
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This may be a little off in terms of funny but it is funny/odd. We all have heard the "f" word before & know that the term "f... you" is commonly used as a deragatory term, right? Do you, however, know what it means or where it comes from?\n\nWell, in the past, when people would go to confession, the phrase, "For Unsanctioned Carnal Knowledge" was written into the book where you would list your sins. That phrase means for knowledge of another outside the bonds of marriage, of course. Over time, the phrase was shortened to the word that some people hurl at each other in nasty ways today. Just think, you are mad at someone & cuss at them when, in reality, you are wishing them a VERY good time!\n\nThought you all might find it comical...I know WAY too many odd tidbits of information!
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It comes from I think the movie "American pie" if I remember correctly. 'Stiffler' uses it. It means Mother I'd like to f*ck.