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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: A loose woman is a bus |
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My gf was wondering about the etymology of "slųt" but I had no clue. Seemed to me just a made up slang, not taken from something else. I asked her what the slang was for a loose woman in Korea. She said "bus". Hmmm. Apt. Anyone can ride her and you don't need a lot of money. |
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da_moler
Joined: 11 Nov 2006
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Obviously doing it with guys who are rich is much more acceptable  |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006 Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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So are men. Ever heard the saying, "Men are like busses. Wait long enough and another one will come along"? |
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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: A loose woman is a bus |
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mindmetoo wrote: |
My gf was wondering about the etymology of "slųt" but I had no clue. Seemed to me just a made up slang, not taken from something else. I asked her what the slang was for a loose woman in Korea. She said "bus". Hmmm. Apt. Anyone can ride her and you don't need a lot of money. |
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1402, "a dirty, slovenly, or untidy woman," probably cognate with dialectal Ger. Schlutt "slovenly woman," dialectal Swed. slata "idle woman, slųt," and Du. slodder "slųt," but the ultimate origin is doubtful. Chaucer uses sluttish (c.1386) in ref. to the appearance of an untidy man. Also "a kitchen maid, a drudge" (c.1450; hard pieces in a bread loaf from imperfect kneading were called slųt's pennies, 18c.). Meaning "woman of loose character, bold hussy" is attested from c.1450; playful use of the word, without implication of loose morals, is attested from 1664.
"Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slųt, and pleases us mightily." [Pepys, diary, Feb. 21, 1664]
Sometimes used 19c. as a euphemism for b!tch to describe a female dog. There is a group of North Sea Gmc. words in sl- that mean "sloppy," and also "slovenly woman," and that tend to evolve toward "woman of loose morals" (cf. slattern, also Eng. dial. slummock "a dirty, untidy, or slovenly person," 1861; M.Du. slore "a sluttish woman"). |
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seoulsucker

Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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The worst slang term I've heard for a loose woman in Korea is "걸래같은년" pronounced "gull-lay gat-eun nyun" which basically means she's like a mop.
Use this one with EXTREME and I mean EXTREME caution. In fact, don't use this one at all. It's pretty much considered one of the worst insults you can dish out on a woman. |
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twg

Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: A loose woman is a bus |
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mindmetoo wrote: |
Anyone can ride her and you don't need a lot of money. |
I like how close that is to the definition of "Town bicycle" |
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GoldMember
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Don't know the Korean terminology, but there is the Korean word for *beep*, but even worse than that is to be called a Foreigner's *beep*.
The lowest of the low are those that bang the foreigner for a buck.
If western countries didn't hand out so many student visas to Korean women, there would'nt be so many "Foreigners Whores". |
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slothrop
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: A loose woman is a bus |
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twg wrote: |
mindmetoo wrote: |
Anyone can ride her and you don't need a lot of money. |
I like how close that is to the definition of "Town bicycle" |
I like that one. |
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Been There, Taught That

Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Mungyeong: not a village, not yet a metroplex.
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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http://cein21.net/suhwoa/15/15_54.htm
demonstrating a 걸레(dustcloth).
http://www.answers.com/topic/swab?cat=technology
Translations for: Swab
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 자루 걸레, 면봉
v. tr. - 걸레질하다, 면봉으로 약칠하다
http://yunmay.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html
interesting blog with something to add
blog entry 9/14/06
Categories are indicated not just by what you wear, when, but also by what you wash together or separately. Underwear? Washed separately. Baby clothes? Also washed separately. Cleaning rags are also separated into two categories: �haengju� (행주 ) are rags used to wipe tables and dry dishes, and �kollae� (걸레 ) are rags used to wash the floor (generally no carpets here, so people wipe the dust off the floor periodically -- much more often than you would in the States -- much more dust here). These rags are also often sterilized by boiling them in a mixture of water and bleach on the stove. But separately, of course, so you don�t mix the floor dirtiness with the table/dishes dirtiness.
http://www.unilecture.com/slang.asp
걸레: a [loose woman], a [similar name Dave's won't allow]
년 (suff.) a derogatory term for woman
The general reference is clear.
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Ilsanman

Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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걸레년 is also correct. It means 'rag woman' or 'mop woman'. I learned it from the subtitles while watching Prison Break.
seoulsucker wrote: |
The worst slang term I've heard for a loose woman in Korea is "걸래같은년" pronounced "gull-lay gat-eun nyun" which basically means she's like a mop.
Use this one with EXTREME and I mean EXTREME caution. In fact, don't use this one at all. It's pretty much considered one of the worst insults you can dish out on a woman. |
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Vancouver
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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I heard that 쳔년 is the worst thing to say to a korean guy. |
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Ilsanman

Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:30 am Post subject: |
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Doesn't that mean 1000 years?
Vancouver wrote: |
I heard that 쳔년 is the worst thing to say to a korean guy. |
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Alyallen

Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:28 am Post subject: |
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Ilsanman wrote: |
Doesn't that mean 1000 years?
Vancouver wrote: |
I heard that 쳔년 is the worst thing to say to a korean guy. |
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A classic example of why I hate Korean....I can hardly read it properly if the print is smallish.
Vancouver wrote 쳔년 not 천년.
At least...that's what I think, it is a bit hard to tell...
What does it mean exactly, Vancouver?
Oh and about meat markets...In NYC, big clubs are sometimes called meat markets because a. it's a place to hook up with guys and gals (so both are called meat by the opposite gender) and/or b. because quite a few of the larger clubs are in former meatpacking warehouses. |
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Ilsanman

Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:35 am Post subject: |
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Possibly. But its not in the dictionary. Not sure.
Alyallen wrote: |
Ilsanman wrote: |
Doesn't that mean 1000 years?
Vancouver wrote: |
I heard that 쳔년 is the worst thing to say to a korean guy. |
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A classic example of why I hate Korean....I can hardly read it properly if the print is smallish.
Vancouver wrote 쳔년 not 천년.
At least...that's what I think, it is a bit hard to tell...
What does it mean exactly, Vancouver?
Oh and about meat markets...In NYC, big clubs are sometimes called meat markets because a. it's a place to hook up with guys and gals (so both are called meat by the opposite gender) and/or b. because quite a few of the larger clubs are in former meatpacking warehouses. |
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