manicdave@feddit.uk to okmatewanker@feddit.ukEnglish · edit-21 month agoAndrew Neil gets dodgy box for Christmas ☠️🎄🦜feddit.ukimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1165arrow-down1imageAndrew Neil gets dodgy box for Christmas ☠️🎄🦜feddit.ukmanicdave@feddit.uk to okmatewanker@feddit.ukEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareflamingos-cant@feddit.ukMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 month agoMr Neil, how can you use suck language like ‘m*llycoddled’? Children might read this!
minus-squareswab148@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoI wish I could have my molly coddled 🥺
minus-squarehappybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agohttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=mollycoddled The resurgence of this word is interesting. It’s mid-19th century slang, the last times it peaked were 1913 and 1948, and now the usage dwarfs either of those. What is the demographic of someone who uses this?
Mr Neil, how can you use suck language like ‘m*llycoddled’? Children might read this!
I wish I could have my molly coddled 🥺
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=mollycoddled
The resurgence of this word is interesting. It’s mid-19th century slang, the last times it peaked were 1913 and 1948, and now the usage dwarfs either of those. What is the demographic of someone who uses this?
Andrew Neill.