VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 2 days agoSociety keeps changing the definition of normal wordsdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square153linkfedilinkarrow-up1556arrow-down13
arrow-up1553arrow-down1imageSociety keeps changing the definition of normal wordsdiscuss.onlineVetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 2 days agomessage-square153linkfedilink
minus-squareArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·21 hours agoGoon literally started out as the big nosed henchmen of the sea hag in the Popeye comic strip in the 1930s. It got applied to refer to anti-union fighters very quickly before it became a general purpose word meaning low-level henchman.
Goon literally started out as the big nosed henchmen of the sea hag in the Popeye comic strip in the 1930s. It got applied to refer to anti-union fighters very quickly before it became a general purpose word meaning low-level henchman.