FabSwingers.com forum: shag the word

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Why do we use the word? Where does itcome from? Who uses it? I dont like the word and no idea how or why it first got used?

By *opping_candyWoman
over a year ago

West Yorkshire

I only use it in a jokey way, I would never seriously proposition someone with 'fancy a shag'. I don't know where it comes from but I find it really crude and it doesn't sound at all sexy.

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

can anyone help with this where does this word come from??

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

is some bright spark going to google this and tell me why and the answer, I would do it myself, but cant bring myself to do it?

By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Shag is the preferred word for those who excel at sex.

By *opping_candyWoman
over a year ago

West Yorkshire

"Its origins are obscure. It’s first recorded by Francis Grose in his Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue of 1785. It’s thought by some to derive from an older sense of the verb that meant to shake about. We don’t know where that came from, either, though it’s probably connected to shake. This meaning fits the later one very well and it’s similar to the way that frig evolved (incidentally, a word whose constituency is pretty much the inverse of shag, being much better known in America than in Britain): at first this meant to move back and forth and then later evolved senses like to copulate and to masturbate. In the nineteenth century, shag was considered very vulgar in Britain and examples in print are rare (perhaps the best known is from that invaluable Victorian word fount, lexicographically speaking, the porno newsletter Pearl). The noun, for an act of copulation, dates only from the 1930s."