Showing posts with label Old English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old English. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

You kids out there might want to come up with something else for "my bad".


A "bad" person, "inferior in quality" from 1200 C.E., from Old English baeddel or baedling, an "effeminate man", a "hermaphrodite", a "pederast", from baedan, "to defile".