hooker

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The word hooker is used as a synonym for the word prostitute , like the words whore , harlot and whore .

While “whore”, “metze” and “damn” emerged from the vocabulary of the Middle Ages , the word “hooker” comes from the Berlin language of the late 19th century. It differs from the aforementioned synonyma in that it is only used in crude, vulgar language and is therefore always used with a clearly disparaging intention.

etymology

The term probably originated from the use of the word " groove (e) " ("gap", "joint" or "crack") for the female genitalia, the vulva , which was also intended to be vulgar and derogatory . At first, the “groove” was probably transferred to the “girl” in general, before it was only used for the prostitute. In his Etymological Dictionary Friedrich Kluge also considers the possibility of transferring “nut”, because in the hunter's language this word describes the genitals of different mammals. But, as Kluge notes, "a safe separation (nut - hooker) ... is not possible for this area".

Originally, the term "hooker" probably only referred to a young prostitute who did not take any money for her services and who looked childlike. Early evidence of this can be found in a criminal trial report by Hugo Friedländer from 1891: “Lenz frequented a 'hooker cellar' on Turmstrasse . It is a cellar in which men and teenagers 13 to 16 year old prostitutes frequent. "

It is also possible that the word "Nida" or "Nidde" originated from the Red Welsch word for a menstruating woman. This term was also later transferred to the prostitute.

Word field

In the word field around the "hooker" you will always find crude and derogatory phrases and compound words :

In the language of the soldiers of the 1930s, for example, “lying like a whore in a firing position” for a man who “lies on his back with his legs apart” or “sitting like a (horny) whore in wait position” means “sitting very indecently”.

Also from the 1930s comes the expression "crooked hooker", which describes the dishonest or insincere prostitute. During this time, the saying “stink like a whore” was used to refer to the smell of cheap perfume ; similarly, the compound “nut diesel” for a foul-smelling perfume.

The compound nouns all follow the scheme of connecting a noun with the word "hooker" in order to disparage the person designated by the noun. For example, “film hooker” (from around 1920) for a woman who is willing to have sexual intercourse in return for a role in a film; analogous to the "theater hooker" (from around 1925) for an "actress with little stage talent but capable of using her physical stimuli". The “wind whore” for a “motorcycle rider willing to sleep together” dates back to the 1930s.

A wealth of composites stems from the places where prostitutes wait for their suitors: for example, the "Polling whore" (about 1958) for the call girl . In the 1960s , terms originating from the field of street prostitution emerged such as “car nutte” who gets into a car for a customer, “gasoline hooker” who does her business in her own car, or generally the “twenty-mark nutte” for a woman who works on the street.

On the method of payment such as the "kind whore" plays on (from around 1925), the fee in kind works.

Web links

Wiktionary: Hooker  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Friedrich Kluge: Etymological dictionary of the German language , edited by Elmar Seebold, 23rd, extended edition, Berlin [among other things] 1995, Lemma "Nutte"
  2. ^ A b c Heinz Küpper: Dictionary of German colloquial language, 1st edition, 6th reprint. Stuttgart, Munich, Düsseldorf, Leipzig: Klett, 1997, p. 578; Lemma "hooker".
  3. ^ Hugo Friedländer: The murder of eight-year-old Lucie Berlin . In: ders., Interesting criminal processes of cultural-historical importance, Volume 1–12, Berlin 1911–1921, Volume 4, p. 17; digitized version.
  4. ↑ Bild -Lexikon der Erotik, published by the Institute for Sexual Research in Vienna, Volume 1: Bilder-Lexikon Kulturgeschichte, Vienna a. a. 1928, p. 640.
  5. ↑ Entry “Nuttendiesel” in the Ruhr German dictionary ( memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.charkxx.kilu.de
  6. ↑ Heinz Küpper: Dictionary of German colloquial language, 1st edition, 6th reprint. Stuttgart, Munich, Düsseldorf, Leipzig: Klett, 1997, page 832; Lemma "theater hooker".
  7. ↑ Heinz Küpper: Dictionary of German colloquial language, 1st edition, 6th reprint. Stuttgart, Munich, Düsseldorf, Leipzig: Klett, 1997, p. 922; Lemma "Windsnutte".
  8. ↑ See: Heinz Küpper: Dictionary of German colloquial language. 1st edition, 6th reprint. Stuttgart, Munich, Düsseldorf, Leipzig: Klett, 1997 under the corresponding lemmas.