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Old 04-11-2022, 07:29 PM   #28982
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
According to the sources I checked, it was around in 1623 so a bit before the internet. Who couldn't love a word for a horny teenager?

From the Merrian-Webster site:

"one past fourteene yeeres of age, beginning to bee moved with Venus delight" (Henry Cockeram, An English Dictionary, 1623) whick also referred to Thomas Eliot's Latin dictionary of 1538 which defined hirquitalus as "a chylde, whiche passeth the age of xiiii yeres, and begynneth to be styrred with lechery."

Ah, the good old days where consistency in spelling was laughed at.

To get back on topic:

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"Horny teenager" strikes me as redundant.



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