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Silmarillion’s got a post over at Après moi, la déluge about tinkers and Jenisch and … quinquis. Here the following perfectly reasonable explanation of “kinky” is given:
As per my comment, the first entries in Hispanic corpses by these delinquents are recent, but I wonder whether more extensive reading might not turn up older examples.
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Hopelessly irrelevant, but amusing nonetheless, here is part of a piece by "Chistera" from the edition of the satirical El Codorniz (The Quail) published on July 24 1966:
Mrs Mary Quant, who may have harboured doubts as to the explosive success of her invention, sought to adorn it with sonorous appellations: “Lolita look”, “Chelsea look”, “kinki look”… The public stripped it of this aristocracy and left it with the democratic name of “miniskirt”.
What is surprising is that she was decorated for “her contribution to exports”. Mrs Mary Quant has an annual turnover of some 500 million pesetas [worth more then than now, alas]. So much with so little! It’s quite possible that she thought up the miniskirt just so Manchester’s textile workers could work a forty-hour week without her running short of cloth.
The miniskirt has already made its entrance at Ascot, the high church of British elegance. We can imagine one of those self-satisfied gentlemen–grey morning coat and top hat–asking himself, “Now where have I seen that skirt before?” The answer is simple: his wife wore it to dance the Charleston.
La minifalda, ya ha entrado en el hipódromo de Ascott, templo máximo de la elegancia británica. Quizás alguno de aquellos encopetados caballeros -chaqué gris y “tubo”- se preguntara:
- ¿Dónde he visto yo antes esa falda?
Era fácil responderle: le llevaba su esposa para bailar el charlestón.
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Trevor @ 28 July 2005 7:18 PM
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