Timeline for When did people start "boinking"?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 22, 2014 at 7:39 | vote | accept | Mari-Lou A | ||
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| Sep 21, 2014 at 21:47 | comment | added | user28567 | @Mari-Lou I don't have much to add to what I've already written, but I can try to answer your last question: it's not really vulgar, just informal, in my opinion. If anything, it sounds a bit silly to me. | |
| Sep 21, 2014 at 16:53 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | On the BrEng chart, boinks and bonked are not mapped, which I suppose is proof that the term, boink originated from the US. Is boink considered vulgar in the US? (I can't imagine it to be so). | |
| Sep 21, 2014 at 13:32 | comment | added | user28567 | @Mari-LouA Dictionaries relate it to bonk and that makes sense to me, too, although I wouldn't personally call it a spelling variation because the pronunciation is also different. My intuition says boink is more closely related to bonk than boing, but I can't say with confidence how the word developed. The citation Frank found does seem more like boing than bonk, but most of the examples I found seemed more like bonk to me (onomatopoeia for some kind of blunt-force collision). | |
| Sep 21, 2014 at 13:22 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Do you think boink is a blending of boing and bonk*, or simply a spelling variation of bonk? Your earlier references seem to indicate that "boink" original meant to either tap people (gently) on their heads or spring energetically forward/backward? | |
| Sep 21, 2014 at 11:54 | comment | added | Pharap | If that's the same Andrew Tanenbaum that wrote MINX, I'm starting to see a pattern here. | |
| Sep 21, 2014 at 9:36 | history | edited | user28567 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 21, 2014 at 9:29 | comment | added | Frank | 1948 - boink as bounce? books.google.com/… | |
| Sep 21, 2014 at 9:21 | history | answered | user28567 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |