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This is more of a tangential comment than an effort to add anything to the definitions and senses already provided. The term “skank” replaced, to some extent, the word we used in high school to refer to a really unattractive girl: scag. After I left the town where that word had that meaning for almost everybody I associated with, I didn’t hear it again. Years later I heard “skank” used in a similar sense of putting down as far as possible the physical attractiveness of a woman at work. That’s when I began to wonder if the two terms were both just regionalisms
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And there’s always stank ho (that’s not oh knats!).
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And there’s always stank ho (that’s not oh knats!).
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You’re becoming one of my favorite Dopers! I almost included that in the post but figured I’d already gotten too far off-base. I see David Alan Grier. Where’s that from?
PS: Urban Dictionary shows “scag” and “skag” to include the usages I remember from school days. They also have “skank” as a synonym.
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I see David Alan Grier. Where’s that from?
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It’s from In Living Color but I don’t remember the exact characters/skit. It tickled the funny bone of my best friend so much I’ll never forget it.
The equivelant ILC moment for me was Jim Carrey doing Vanilla Ice “I’m a little teapot short and stout” and “Kick it!” and his sneaker goes flying. Bwah!
[QUOTE=gigi]
It’s from In Living Color but I don’t remember the exact characters/skit. It tickled the funny bone of my best friend so much I’ll never forget it.
The equivelant ILC moment for me was Jim Carrey doing Vanilla Ice “I’m a little teapot short and stout” and “Kick it!” and his sneaker goes flying. Bwah!
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Didn’t the ILC crowd do at least one movie? I never watched the TV show on a regular basis, but I have a distinct memory of the bit involving a T-shirt or something where “OH KNATS” gets reversed for the camera and whoever it is (as I recall, Grier) having a surprised look on his face as a result.
Pretty sure it wasn’t Amazon Women On The Moon, because I saw that again not too long ago. Grier and BB King and the “black man born with no soul” was the highlight of that.
