![]() Thank you!ĮTA: Thanks, everyone! I think I have enough, now - particularly on the gimp question. My story is set in the US, in the 1980s, but I welcome any related info from other English-speaking cultures. Perhaps this is due to its appearance in the film Pulp Fiction in 1995 Contributors comments: Gimp is not a regionalism in Brisbane. Can anyone please help me with this? I really want to use this concept in my story, and it's driving me mad that I can't come up with the term! I wikipedia'd the hell out of this question, but although I found many articles about developmental psychology, I can't find any mention of a term to describe someone who has had trouble with a particular stage, and the effects on that person as an adult. And I *think* it may have begun with the letter P. Gimp - Arabic meanings: - Definition & Synonyms English to Arabic dictionary gives you the best and accurate Arabic translation and meanings of Gimp. If it helps, this term was coined (I think) fairly early in the history of psychiatry - I think we learned about it between Freud and Piaget. You can trace the word hominy all the way back to the Greek words homos meaning same, and onuma. Can also be used to imply that the person is uncool or can't/won't do what everyone else is doing. (2) An insult implying that someone is incompetent, stupid, etc. As you may have guessed, the word gimp is a true homonym aka, words that may be pronounced or spelled the same way but hold different meanings. (1) a derrogatory term for someone that is disabled or has a medicial problem that results in physical impairment. If I recall correctly, this term is one that has entered lay usage as well (like "anal retentive", or "codependent"), where it's used more broadly to refer to someone who is immature or emotionally stunted. The Oxford English Dictionary defines gimp as a person who limps or walks in a halting manner. But I can't think of the term, or the psychologist! When I was in college, I took an intro Psych course, and I remember reading about a psychologist who coined a term to describe someone who, because of some traumatic experience, is stuck at a certain stage of development. I'm writing a story where someone uses the word pre-1994, and I'm wondering what connotations it would have had at that point.Ģ. Or alternatively, real dictionaries (like those assembled at ) are completely unaware of the sexual usage. I have googled this, but every reference I find just restates that gimp is "a derogatory term used to refer to a sexual submissive person," and then they cite Pulp Fiction as evidence. My question: did the word gimp have this sexual meaning anywhere, to anyone, before Pulp Fiction? Or did people just have no idea what the term meant, and when they saw the movie, they assumed from context that it must refer to some BDSM practice? Can anyone cite a BDSM-related use of the word gimp that predates Pulp Fiction? But then, circa 1994, Pulp Fiction came out, and suddenly everyone and their mom was using gimp to refer to someone who takes part in SM scenes. ![]() Now, when I was a kid, a gimp was just another mean word for cripple. I have two word-related questions that are really bugging me.ġ.
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