Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Being a broad.

"She had a great life, my mom, she really did," her daughter
Heather told People.  "She was quite a broad."
 
http://www.webpronews.com/sheila-macrae-of-the-honeymooners-dies-at-92-2014-03
 
 
Che significa?
 
 
-- 
"President Bush is due to address the nation in approximately 20
minutes precisely."
                -- Peter Jennings, ABC News
 

 Che significa?
 
È slang della quarantina o prima. Vuole dire "donna."
 
 

 Vuole dire "donna." 
 
 
Un po' generico...
 
 
Da dove viene fuori?
 
 
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via AIOE

 
 
Com in molti altri casi e' piuttosto complicato e non del tutto certo, ma
questo e' quello che si trova in giro:
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Where did this slang word for woman come from? It comes from a broad being a
playing card. This may sound absurd on the face of it, but if you follow the
development of slang uses of broad it all becomes clear.
 
Broad is an 18th century slang term for a playing card, especially one used in
three card monte. This usage may refer to style of playing deck. In modern
card decks, a bridge deck has narrower cards than are found in a poker deck.
If this variation in card size is older (I know words, not cards), then a
broad could be a reference to this larger cut of cards. From George Parker???s
1781 A View of Society:
 
    Black-Legs, who live by the Broads and the Turf [...] Cant for cards.
 
By the 20th century this sense of broad had expanded to include tickets of
admission and transportation. From Field???s Watch Yourself of 1912:
 
    Fix the olly! I gave him broads to the show!1
 
And from Jackson & Hellyer???s 1914 A Vocabulary of Criminal Slang:
 
    ???Beating the broads??? is corrupting the conductor or other collecting
functionaire of a transportation line.2
 
At about the same time, the term is recorded to mean a prostitute. Also from
Jackson & Hellyer:
 
    Broad, Noun Current amongst genteel grafters chiefly. A female
confederate; a female companion, a woman of loose morals. Broad is derived
from the far-fetched metaphor of "meal ticket," signifying a female provider
for a pimp, from the fanciful correspondence of a meal ticket to a railroad or
other ticket.3
 
If the meal ticket connection is too much for you, the sense could have jumped
from three card monte to woman. The goal of that game is to pick the queen
from among three cards, and broad could have transferred from the card, to the
queen, to women.
 
The general sense of broad meaning a woman, as opposed to the specific one of
prostitute, is cited from 1911, from the September issue of Hampton???s
Magazine:
 
    Pretty soon what is technically known as a ???broad"???"broad" being the
latest New Yorkese???hove into sight.
 
Although this general sense is cited three years earlier than the prostitution
sense, it is likely that the prostitution sense is older since the earliest
citations of that are in slang dictionaries, meaning the term was around for a
while before the lexicographers got hold of it.4 
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Sembra abbastanza supportata come ipotesi.
 
E giusto per aggiungere un caso particolare...
 
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Back in 1997, I was temping on UNC-CH's campus as they were looking for a new
university president (or provost or something--university leader, anyway). I
knew that a woman was among the finalists, but I was still shocked to see The
Daily Tarheel banner headline: "BROAD ELECTED AS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT."
 
Her name, as I quickly found out, was Molly Broad; but I still think the
editor was snickering.
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Che significa?
 
 
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=broad
 
 

 
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=broad
 
 
Meno di una signora, ma piu' di una broccola? = una tipa.
 
 
 
 
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