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Posted October 26, 2012
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PetrusOctavianus: Cod piece. What has it got to do with salt water fish?
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Narushima: Again, satisfying your curiosity is easy: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/codpiece?region=uk&q=codpiece
"Origin:
from earlier cod 'scrotum' (from Old English codd 'bag, pod') + piece"

Same origin as Norwegian "kødd", which means "prick" (now) or "testicle" (originally), then. :-)
Post edited October 26, 2012 by PetrusOctavianus
Posted October 26, 2012
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Darling_Jimmy: Balls to the wall
If you haven't seen this, you should watch it. The idioms he talks about are hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wva3qypGPvA
Posted October 26, 2012
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DrIstvaan: A university teacher told us that Italian people have a similar word for them because they were burned at stakes.
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Narushima: Unless he was a linguistics teacher, I very much doubt that.
That's got the distinctive mark of something that sounds too colourful to be true, like the believed (and wrong) origins of "fuck you" as being "pluck yew", and many others.
She gave us language use improvement lessons, and she had a very... strong inclination to talking about gay people. Really, the topic of at least half of the lessons in that semester were about homosexuals.
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