just opened a random fic and encountered the mysterious noun phrase ‘the blacket’ (rhymes with jacket?) four times with increasing bewilderment about what it was and what was its function in an airport before i figured out it was a neologism for ‘a dude with black hair,’ backformed from the existing term brunet.
i think this is the most egregious instance of epithet abuse i’ve seen in a while.
I love that they’ve take them time to make the male/female spelling distinction that mostly only pedants care about and yet they’ve still used this word
as an absolute pedant about this one stupid fucking thing, I appreciate that even if they mangled a perfectly good word to express “black haired guy” in about half the letters at least they did it correctly
seriously, I encounter ‘ravenette’ all the time in one of my fandoms. about a dude.
NO
@amorphousturtle replied to your post:
We already HAD a word for “(guy) with black hair”. It was “blake”. No, I don’t know what to do with this either.Oh hoy lads! New information!
…but when did it mean that and when did it stop? Why did this word fall out of use except as a personal name?
etymology tumblr come to our aid.
time to start referring to my black-haired character Alan Corben as “the corvette”
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