Timeline for Is "Firestarter" something that native a English speaker would think as negative?
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| Nov 5, 2016 at 21:30 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Feb 1, 2014 at 10:55 | vote | accept | andrerpena | ||
| Feb 1, 2014 at 7:21 | comment | added | Kris | Apart from its possible meaning and implications, firestarter is already the name of at least one software for animation: coffeecup.com/firestarter | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 2:26 | comment | added | phenry | If there's a word or phrase in English that some teenager somewhere hasn't corrupted into a sexual double entendre, I haven't run across it yet. | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 1:38 | comment | added | user24964 | @WS2 I wish I could unlearn it! | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 1:21 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Like some other commenters, I have never heard of a firestarter in the sense given by Urban Dictionary (and I consider myself relatively well-versed in gay slang). My immediate association to the word is the song Firestarter by the Prodigy, and I would venture that between the Stephen King book and movie and the Prodigy song, you'll have most people's immediate associations covered. | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 0:22 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Oldcat: As I remember, the brandname of the paraffin wax sticks I had to use (as the official designated house firestarter) was actually Zip. I didn't discover Zippos until many years later. | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 0:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 1, 2014 at 0:04 | comment | added | WS2 | Just goes to show you learn something every day! | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 0:04 | comment | added | Oldcat | Or you could call it Zippo, after the lighter. | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 23:54 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think this is POB (too subjective). fwiw, firelighters were an ordinary household commodity in my youth, and I'm sure they still are to many today. | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 23:43 | answer | added | Oldcat | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 31, 2014 at 23:40 | history | asked | andrerpena | CC BY-SA 3.0 |