Ok, it is quite obvious after reading these comments that the true meaning and origin of the term “shower” or “douchebag” (what is the origin of the word? French) and I just saw in an episode of Nazi collaborators on the shower Pierre Laval and the totally dudish things he did during the 2nd World War!!!! You are so separated and people who could really answer this question don`t go on blogs!!! #clueless! #nosenseofhistory #thinkbeforeyouspeak! Not only can you have a shower isolated from the bag, but now that it has moved away from semantic origins, you can modify the shower with a number of things. I wrote about this on my old blog when my sister started using the shower canoe in her usual speech – and I`m sure she never knew what a medical shower bag was for: so douchebag seems to have been used in a vulgar context during World War II. However, it should be noted that this is the ONLY use of the species found in the literature of the 1950s: all other examples of shower bags/shower bags are related to medicine or hygiene. I doubt the term was popular at the time. Anthropologists in the 31st century, deprived of the electronic media we have today, might be baffled by how douche, a word meaning “shower” in French, became something of a “pompous idiot.” Here`s how useful it is to look at the origins of douchebag (or shower) from this Wikipedia entry: “. and she yelled at Jack to come and she/d f***in blindly didn`t like that f*** in douchebag who he was with and someone shouted that we/were coming and she was dragged down the stairs… Susan, the term douchebag was first used in the 50s by women against women. It was pejorative to them because it meant they needed “cleansing” to be attractive to the opposite sex. Douches can be used in other body cavities such as the anus and nasal cavity. Do a simple Google search or your local pharmacy and you`ll see that there`s a product like the nasal douche. After all, shower simply means “cleaning”! The slang shower bag comes from the literal shower bag, a type of syringe for showering or washing the vagina for hygienic and contraceptive purposes. They are referenced in medical texts and midwifery books in the late 1800s. Douche itself comes from French and the Italian words for “shower”.
A shower bag is a familiar insult to an obnoxious titled idiot. So let`s put the pieces together. In 1960, when showering was a much more common and perhaps more important practice in the public`s imagination, the douchebag would have had a much more disgusting connotation and would probably have been avoided for that reason. But in the 21st century, at a time when many people barely remember what rinses were, it might be considered a less offensive insult. Thank you for training me on this. As you can see, I have very little knowledge about what the actual rinsing process entails! “Douchebag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/douchebag. Retrieved 5 November 2022. I can tell you that `shower` and `douchebag` are very popular insults here in the UK. They seem to be especially popular with students and young adults, and I find them hilarious. In fact, there are several types of shower bags, and you are absolutely right when you say that the bag contains garbage, because this happens with certain types that we used in Europe in the 60s and 70s.
Yuk. As an insult, it seems to be used against both men and women and seems to mean exactly what you said, a pompous idiot. I find this incredibly satisfying! Interesting. I have always considered “Shower” as an offshoot of “Shower Bag”. Although “shower” seems to be more common than “douchebag” these days (the latter actually sounds a bit passatic to my ears), it seems to evolve very quickly from one to the other. I do not discuss blasphemies much here, which is regrettable. Swearing is an indelible part of any dialect, and no discussion of spoken English would be complete without mentioning them. Which brings us to today`s topic, the meteoric rise of the American English epithet “douchebag.” Nevertheless, there are few examples of the pejorative douchebag in the 1960s.
And since that decade was famous for its softening of literary puritanism, I guess it was still unusual. Because of its use by women for a taboo part of the body, douchebag was a derogatory term for women in the 1930s. The use of the term by author Henry Miller caused some controversy in the 1960s. This content is not intended to be a formal definition of this term. Rather, it is an informal summary intended to provide additional information and context that is important to know or note the history, meaning and use of the term. The way I hear people using shower/douchebag (and I didn`t notice any distinction here) is, as you say, a pompous, cheeky or deceived idiot. But this is not limited to misogynistic or chauvinistic men. (I agree that there is some sexism with the term, as it is somehow only applied to men.) It is often applied to any man who has an opinion that is considered untenable, offensive or outdated, or who has such opinions in a complacent manner or who simply behaves in a self-glorifying manner. I find it interesting that misogyny seems to be an inseparable part of “douchebaggery”. I`m curious why the term evolved to categorize such a specific type of men: deceived, cheeky, and sexist. “I have to admit that the douchebag (as an insult to people) was only added to my lexicon in the 2000s.
For many years, I even assumed that the term was a currency of the 21st century. For me, a douchebag is a weak and shy man who tries to expand by being aggressive and condescending on procedural points, the use of words, minor questions or the details of the area in which he considers himself competent. I could say a lot more about this word, but I`ll stop before I start hiking.** I`m curious to know what everyone has experienced with Douchebag. And a related question: Is “Douchebag” progressing outside the United States? Douchebag has inspired creative variations or derivative forms. Douchebaggery is the state of being a douchebag; Shower-nozzle is a particularly outrageous shower bag. The shorter forms of shower and douchey are also very common. It wasn`t until the next three decades that Douchebag seemed to be making progress. There are a dozen examples of pejorative use of the word in literature between 1970 and 1980. In the 80s, this number rose to several dozen.* And in the 1990s, this number increased to 100-200. But I seriously tried to research the origin of the term douchebag, and my logical conclusion came as a result of what the bullshit of the French in the 2nd century. World War II! And how stupid it was to exchange 3 French workers for 1 prisoner of war, only to completely lose the France because of this Antichrist Hitler!?! Real?! I mean, REALLY?!?!?? Were you so ignorant of what was going on at the time???!! Eff! I digress. I doubt it will be posted or anyone will read this.
But I dare to question my claim that Lasell`s actions/person are NOT the cause of the “shower”! Bam! “Yes, discovering travel was a wonderful thing, and it took you to many evil and obscure countries at 20. It`s only now that the curtain falls on your 20th birthday and you notice that all the other travelers are still 19 years old. Suddenly, you`re in a hostel in Laos, listening to an ring on his travel ukulele “Wonderwall” and an unpleasant thought comes to mind: “Am I too old for this? Have I become a scary douchebag? – Julian Morgans, Vice, January 2017 The word “douchebag” first came to my attention in the early 1980s when there was a character in Hill Street Blues who used it. Hill Street Blues was a crime drama that sought a lot more credibility than other shows of this type at the time and was one of the best things on television. One of the characters was Sergeant Mick Belker, a police officer who worked undercover most of the time. To make the character truly authentic, he would have had to curse a little, which was not allowed on television according to FCC guidelines. He often referred to criminals as “shower bags,” and I remember the discussion at the time about whether that word was appropriate for prime-time television. Douchebag was military slang for a gym bag in the mid-1950s (according to one of my teachers). So “douchebag nose” could have meant a very big nose. It`s always a fun exercise to trace the origins of a slang word that probably grew like a virus. And this goes beyond cultural boundaries. More recently, an article described Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly as a “douchebag” for saying the mayor had embarrassed Toronto.
In 2014, American studies professor Michael Mark Cohen wrote a popular article about how Douchebag was “the white racist slur we`ve all been waiting for,” criticizing a privileged, white, heterosexual man. Douchebag joins many other sexist slang terms that use words referring to the female body to offend men. I`m from England, and that word has always baffled me because it`s such a stupid insult and makes the user look slightly dumb. I`ve never heard anyone who speaks English use it because I think they`d be laughed at. I have the impression that the vast majority of people who use this word have no idea what a shower bag is and simply use it to imitate others. I`ve said this before, but when the usage dataset is compiled, I believe the rapid rise of “Douchebag” in the early 2000s is attributed to Alex Balk of The Awl (a friend of mine), like The Minor Fall, The Major Lift.