# OK, I give, what's "MILF"?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 26, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092 "2004-09-26T00:19:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/1 "2004-09-26T00:19:42Z")
I Googled, obviously it’s something sexual, but I don’t want to click on any of those icky-looking links.
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### Author:  [@MC\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_E)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/2 "2004-09-26T00:23:31Z")
Mom I’d Like to F\*\*k
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### Author:  [@DVsickgirlDV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVsickgirlDV)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/3 "2004-09-26T00:23:40Z")
It’s from the movie American Pie. It stands for “Mom I’d Like to Fuck.”
Basically, it’s when one of your friends has an attractive mother.
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### Author:  [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/4 "2004-09-26T00:24:36Z")
Mother I’d Like to Fool Around with. Or something like that 😉
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### Author:  [@NewHeart\_Male](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NewHeart_Male)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/5 "2004-09-26T00:25:33Z")
Milfa
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/6 "2004-09-26T00:31:35Z")
> [@DVsickgirlDV](#):
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> It’s from the movie American Pie. It stands for “Mom I’d Like to Fuck.”
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> Basically, it’s when one of your friends has an attractive mother.
Its used alot more often to describe single mothers in their 20s.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/7 "2004-09-26T00:35:39Z")
And thirties. And forties. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/8 "2004-09-26T00:38:02Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> And thirties. And forties. 🙂
Yeah. I remember a 30 year old MILF I went to college with.
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### Author:  [@NoPretentiousCodename](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoPretentiousCodename)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/9 "2004-09-26T02:10:14Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#):
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> Yeah. I remember a 30 year old MILF I went to college with.
Well, if it was in the past tense, wouldn’t the term be M.I.W.L.T.H.F.? M.I.S.H.F.?😃
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/10 "2004-09-26T03:06:47Z")
> [@DVsickgirlDV](#):
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> It’s from the movie American Pie. It stands for “Mom I’d Like to Fuck.”
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> Basically, it’s when one of your friends has an attractive mother.
The saying had already been around for years and years before _American Pie_ came out. In my circle, it was never applied to any of my friend’s moms, just hot women you’d see out on the street with a kid.
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### Author:  [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/11 "2004-09-26T03:18:00Z")
For future reference - I find [Urbandictionary.com](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MILF&r=f) indispensable for terms/acronyms that [Acronymfinder.com](http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=MILF) won’t/can’t find.
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### Author:  [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/12 "2004-09-26T03:18:33Z")
One night during a ski trip to VT a couple years ago, and was out at a restaurant with some friends of a friend who worked at a big Nordic skiing center. They said the part of the job they loved the most were the youth races, because they could ogle the “yummy mummies”.
“The what?” I asked.
“The yummmy mummmies!”, they drooled. “The hot women who come to watch their kids ski. God, some of them, they’re so sexy.”
All I could think was: That is _so wrong_.
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### Author:  [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/13 "2004-09-26T03:29:57Z")
> [@Loopydude](#):
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> One night during a ski trip to VT a couple years ago, and was out at a restaurant with some friends of a friend who worked at a big Nordic skiing center. They said the part of the job they loved the most were the youth races, because they could ogle the “yummy mummies”.
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> “The what?” I asked.
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> “The yummmy mummmies!”, they drooled. “The hot women who come to watch their kids ski. God, some of them, they’re so sexy.”
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> All I could think was: That is _so wrong_.
Whats so wrong about it? I work with kids at my part time jobs, and I see hot moms all the time. Granted, I don’t act like a total lecher around them, but I don’t see anything wrong with finding mothers in their 20’s/30’s sexually attractive.
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### Author:  [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/14 "2004-09-26T03:50:27Z")
You know what? I’ve seen a few of these “MILF” sites and I dunno.
No stretch marks, no variciose veins, buff and toned, all over tans, pubes trimmed or shaved…
And then there’s the Mothers…
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/15 "2004-09-26T04:01:16Z")
When living at the Outer Banks, I managed a 19 year old surfer kid. I had never heard the term “MILF” before he explained it to me, this was 1995. Often uttured under his breath to a MILF:
“Hey mother, want another?”
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### Author:  [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/16 "2004-09-26T04:47:32Z")
[Moro Islamic Liberation Front?](http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/milf.htm)
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/17 "2004-09-26T04:52:05Z")
My understanding is that a woman doesn’t get to be a MILF just by having a kid. A 23 year old wouldn’t be correct in calling Kate Hudson a MILF; she’s a mother and an attractive woman, but she’s only 25. A true MILF is a woman old enough to be your mother (regardless of her actual childbearing status); the same 23 year old might consider Sheryl Crow a proper MILF at age 41, even though she has never had a child.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-whats-milf/266092/18 "2004-09-26T06:15:06Z")
The OP was asked and answered.
Further discussion can be started elsewhere.
**samclem** GQ moderator