etymology - Is the alleged original meaning of the phrase 'blood is ...
I am fairly certain that the inaccurate “butt fuck Egypt” derived from bum being the English term for buttocks. Clearly the definition of BFE is the same regardless of what one believes the “B” stands for, but I thought is was worth correcting. I have no idea how accurate or reliable the above etymology is. There is no entry on ...
offensive language - What is the etymology of "BFE"? - English Language ...
Here is an example of a directed graph: It works in multiple languages, providing etymology data, descendants, related words and more. It also has a pretty quick search, and the index is constantly growing in the number of words and slowly growing in accuracy too.
The word crazy is a later addition. Scanning Google Books I find a handful of references starting from the mid-60s where batshit is clearly just a variation on bullshit (nonsense, rubbish) - which meaning still turns up even in 2001, but it's relatively uncommon now. Here's a relatively early one from 1967 where the meaning is crazy. A decade later most references have this meaning, but the ...
etymology - Where did the phrase "batsh*t crazy" come from? - English ...
Nobody really knows. There's no agreed derivation of the expression 'hunky-dory'. It is American and the earliest example of it in print that I have found is from a collection of US songs, George Christy's Essence of Old Kentucky, 1862. We do know that 'hunky-dory' wasn't conjured from nowhere but was preceded by earlier words, i.e. 'hunkey', meaning 'fit and healthy' and 'hunkum-bunkum ...