Jock (slang)
Jock [ dʒɒk ] is in American English common, joking to derogatory slang designation for a young, physically active and sexually successful, but intellectually rather overworked man who often called stereotype is used and precipitation American US in the literature, in movies as well as other areas of popular culture .
Origin of the term
According to Merriam Webster, the term was derived from the jockstrap , an underwear that is often worn for protection during sporting activities and which can also contain a testicle protection.
The Online Etymology Dictionary defines jock as follows:
"1952, short for jockstrap" supporter of the male genital organs, "which also meant, in slang," athletic male. " Jock with the meaning "an athletic man" is from 1963, American English slang. "
The Oxford English Dictionary records the first reference to the meaning of "young athletes" in 1963 and initially uses an acronym for jockey . The Duden refers to this in English as jockey , in Scottish Jock = Jakob , an older term for a stable boy .
reception
According to Matthias Heine, the term, which has so far rarely been used in German, stands in contrast to nerd for a socially and erotically successful and popular athletic high school student. In German, however, there is currently no equivalent, so that it is translated as "athlete", as in the novel Freiheit by Jonathan Franzen , but the social dimension is lost.
The jock, like the twink , bear or hunk, is a stereotype of gay pornography.
Web links
- About Jocks as a Youth Subculture , Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA; University of California, Los Angeles (pdf, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ jock in Merriam Webster , accessed August 4, 2015
- ^ Jock in Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed November 4, 2015
- ↑ Jock in Oxford English Dictionary , accessed November 3, 2015; Quote Origin: Late 20th century: probably an abbreviation of jockey, from its informal use in combinations such as jet jockey, plow jockey, where “operation” or “control” of equipment is involved.
- ↑ Jockey in duden.de, accessed on August 4, 2015
- ^ How US series are changing the German language , Matthias Heine in Welt Online from October 16, 2015