From: dfreemans@live.com   
      
   On Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at 8:39:32 PM UTC-4, Debra Dee McQueen Freeman   
   wrote:   
   > Evolution of the Word Dick   
   > https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/344805/evolution-of-the-word-dick   
   >    
   > But how long, you ask, has “dick” been used to mean a stupid or   
   contemptible   
   > person? Only since the 1960s, according to Cassell’s and Random House.   
   >    
   > The earliest Random House citation is from Norman Bogner’s 1966 novel   
   Seventh   
   > Avenue: “He’s a dick. I don’t know from respect, except for my   
   parents.”    
   >    
   > The usage follows several negative verbal senses of “dick” that showed   
   up in   
   > the mid-20th century, such as “dick around” (1948, waste time), “dick   
   off”   
   > (1948, shirk one’s duties), and “dick up” (1951, spoil).   
      
   Apparently Dick started out as a nickname for Richard,   
   as well as abbreviation for the word Detective,   
   then was substituted for the word man,    
   and the words stupid man, as in,    
   What a stupid man.    
   What a stupid dick.   
   What a dick.   
      
   And then somewhere along the way   
   persons considered it yet another   
   word for penis (adding to a very   
   long list).   
      
   However, I myself have used the word   
   dick derogatorily towards a man,   
   but never meaning the word penis by it,   
   and does anyone ??   
      
   How stupid to call a man a penis !!   
      
   And WHO would disparage the human body   
   that GOD made and pronounced very good   
   except one of Satan's minions ??   
      
   And WHAT type of men call other men twat ??   
      
   Only men that ARE disparaging females,   
   because female genitalia is the only   
   meaning of the word twat.   
      
   Whereas the word dick has many meanings   
   and applications.   
      
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