Use of the word 'pimping'

[Milzy]

I can't stand people calling things 'savage' "Ohh yeah Gaz went up hardknott pass on his fixie, must have been absolute savage" etc.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Surely instead of focusing on one (American) negative usage of the word, we should be embracing the positive ways it is now used bringing pleasure to people modifying and personalising their bikes, cars, food etc?

 

[Saluki]

a long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding

What do we call this from now on?

Still a hoe.
The derogatory term, used by Americans is just because they can’t spell.

 

[Blue Hills]

Can we not? Pimping is what pimps did to their cars and outfits to display their wealth. A wealth made off the exploitation of women.

See also 'porn' as in 'bike porn', 'food porn'.

What's your issue with porn?

In view of what's kind of implied in your post (correct me if i'm wrong) i recommend you switch your filters to on plus on before googling or binging bike porn.

 

[Blue Hills]

See 'canola'...
And the derivation of 'rape' in this context is apparently the Latin for 'turnip'...

Thanks for this. Something learned for the day, i can retire to my slumbers contented.

 

[Mugshot]

My granddaughter brought a doll with her when she came to visit last weekend, she'd made it out of a pair of her leggings that she had cut up (no she wasn't supposed to)
Here it is;

She was asking me what she could call it.
"How about pipsqueak?" I said
"Ok, pimpsqueak"*
"No, pip, not pimp."
"Yes, that what I said, pimp"
On it went for several minutes...
"Is pimp a swear word then?"
"Well, no, not a swear word, but not something you want to call your doll."
"What does it mean then?"
"It's a bit difficult for me to explain."
"Well what does it mean?"
Back and forth it went for several more minutes...
"Ooooo, I tell you what, let's go and see what we can see in the pond shall we?"

Anyway, thanks for listening, carry on.

*I have since found out that "pimpsqueak" has an urban dictionary meaning too.

 

[Blue Hills]

Conflicted views on that pic.

1, admire her creative talent.
2, find that creation seriously disturbing.

 

[Globalti]

Is that a blackcurrant bush? Doesn't it need pruning?

 

[Mugshot]

Is that a blackcurrant bush? Doesn't it need pruning?

It is, yes.
No idea, never have pruned it and it seems to do ok, though I am more than happy to be educated. I just stick things in the ground and hope for the best.

 

[Globalti]

Try cutting out the dead wood.

 

[Mugshot]

Try cutting out the dead wood.

Ok

 

[theclaud]

I love it how this kind of thread brings out both people so incurious about language that they've only just figured out that oilseed rape and the crime of rape are etymologically unrelated, and people who casually pretend that they are patriotically reclaiming a vaguely documented 400-year-old meaning which they somehow know to be mysteriously innocent of any association with sex and power. Google is truly amazing - at reinforcing what you already want to believe, if nothing else. Anyway, some of us are so middle-class that we've been eating cima di rapa for years.

 

[Blue Hills]

Clearly upthread i committed a vegetable crime.

I am by the by pretty curious about language, tis my background on several levels.

And will i hope be curious to the end of my days, always hoping to learn new stuff, feel no great shame about admitting that I have. The person who knows everything, or claims to, is surely profoundly sad.

 

[Dayvo]

Is that a blackcurrant bush? Doesn't it need pruning?

No, that would be the prune bush.

 

[slowmotion]

I love it how this kind of thread brings out both people so incurious about language that they've only just figured out that oilseed rape and the crime of rape are etymologically unrelated, and people who casually pretend that they are patriotically reclaiming a vaguely documented 400-year-old meaning which they somehow know to be mysteriously innocent of any association with sex and power. Google is truly amazing - at reinforcing what you already want to believe, if nothing else. Anyway, some of us are so middle-class that we've been eating cima di rapa for years.

{polite cough}
The word seems to come from French, not English.
HTH.