All in all, though, we’ve lost more than we’ve gained. I was alone at the time. I read a memoir of a young, newlywed farmer's wife from the late 1880s who was supposed to go to town, but the trip got cancelled and so she decided to eat her sack lunch she had prepared for the trip, out in the shade of the barn where her husband and hired hands were working. Also a swear word used on a machine known for frequently breaking down. Calling a women a "Church bell", meant she was talkative.
But I digress), I was surprised to hear him say, "I'm gonna blow your fucking head off." "It's very well documented that the obscenity of the West was striking, but the obscenity of mining camps was unbelievable.". 36. And, by the way, the term "F-bomb" is a new phrase, coming into vogue in the last decade, or so, underscoring how fluid language is. My wife Eryn, instead of supporting me as a good life partner should, instead turned the tables by suggesting that I curse too much. Very good.
Are you a True West Maniac? Interesting. Well, I carried on in that style of blusteration for twenty minutes, until I had used up all fifty-six of the westernisms for whiskey that I’d recently learned. Sure, I’m ornery as a cross-eyed mule. m_gallery_creation_date = "Saturday, January 09, 2016, 2:52 PM"; Indeed some historical accounts note the air was cloudy with cursing in such wild and uncivilized locations like Denver, Colorado, and Tombstone, Arizona. I never said the F word in front of my mom till I cussed God when my dad died. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. When I was finally through, Dondo just handed me a cup of black coffee—and his hoothouse blackwater, by the way, could float a pony—and then he phoned Eryn to ask her to come pick me up.
That evening over a tumbler of rye I decried the profound illiteracy of my well-meaning friend, whose lexicon of fecal euphemisms was so tragically impoverished. He was thrilled. "The wind has January in it": Cold weather. It appears to me that historians who claim "Deadwood's" profanity is too modern or too frequent haven't read history's documents closely enough.
I wish we still referred to procrastination as beating the devil around the stump. Part of the charm and character of the Old West, as viewed through our modern eyes, has always been the colorful speech of those days. Secondly, as the show accurately points out, Deadwood was at first a town with no laws at all. But my favorite curse, one that is absolutely authentic to the Old West, and to which my own identity drew me magnetically, is I Dad! Certainly they used foul language. Now, clearly pop culture has turned much of the true West into bullshit legend -- there were never quick-draw artists who could shoot a six gun out of your hand with another six gun. Worse, I learned that it was impossible for me to pay only fifty cents per curse, because immediately upon swearing I would recognize my error, which would, of course, cause me to swear. 15 Old West Oregon curse words for the 'Deadwood' movie (photos) Updated Jan 09, 2019; Posted Jan 10, 2016 'Deadwood,' Oregon and the language of the Old West.
I don’t know what it means, but I know from experience that it’s true. A "Hedge-creeper" was a prostitute. © 2020 Advance Local Media LLC. : AskHistorians.
We all know what it means to be a bad egg, or to be bamboozled, or to have a bee in your bonnet. Foul language has been with us from time memorial but why we insist on injecting modern verbiage into history truly mystifies. political broadside posted in 1847 Oregon City. It was nothing of the kind, it was a major insult. She loves damp apples, too.” It was soon decided that each swear word would require a fifty-cent contribution from whomever should so utterly lack self-control as to let one slip. And here I pause to editorialize that lickfinger is the greatest euphemism for obsequiousness ever invented.) Gaylord's "Wood Words," here's a list of impolite but extinct phrases -- many born from logging, farming and railroading - that might appear in "Deadwood" if it took place in Oregon rather than South Dakota: "I have seen the elephant": Overcoming the hardships of the Old West and being grateful. The language in Deadwood was used for shock value because it was pay-cable TV and they wanted to see what they could get away with and distance themselves from broadcast TV. Even those who threw the Queen Mother of dirty words around in conversation would't dare write it down. He has teeth so crooked he could eat corn on the cob through a picket... CRAZY. Now, this doesn't prove he was using the F-bomb, but it does illustrate that there was a profane vocabulary used by men when there are no women present. Remember how E.B. Bend my elbow, partner! Today, we think of someone calling another a "cotton picker" as a quaint 50's childish saying. Well, I was feeling above snakes from getting the drop on my boss with my pink westernized lingo, so I trampoosed two whoops and a holler over to the watering hole to check my capital bar dog. My first idea was to cuss out my boss, just to catch the weasel asleep and acknowledge the corn (surprise him by speaking the truth about his shortcomings).
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