The origin of the word "cum"?

Xelent · #1 09-10-2005, 05:33 PM

I was wondering where and why semen got turned into the word cum. Also when.

fluxrad · #2 09-10-2005, 05:35 PM

Congratulations on not using it as a verb.

As for the etymology. I doubt anyone knows.

send_the_msg · #3 09-10-2005, 05:37 PM

i know that the clear goo that comes out first is called "precum". and that's a scientific term i believe.

MikeNaked · #4 09-10-2005, 05:41 PM

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I was wondering where and why semen got turned into the word cum. Also when.

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Apparently it's been around for at least 350 years. OED:

come: v 16. to experience sexual orgasm. Also with -off. slang a. 1650 Walking in Meadow Green in Bp. Percy's Loose Songs (1868): Then off he came, & blusht for shame soe soon that he had endit. b. 1714 Cabinet of Love: Just as we came, I cried, 'I faint! I die!'

mason55 · #5 09-10-2005, 05:45 PM

"Off I came, all over her hair"

Hmmm I like it!

garyjacosta · #6 09-10-2005, 05:47 PM

Wife: "Would you come on already? My legs are getting cramps!"

evil_twin · #7 09-10-2005, 06:04 PM

It's just a mispelling of "come" that stuck. Stuck? Oooh eer.

Xelent · #8 09-10-2005, 06:17 PM

OK, well than how did "come" come.

#9 09-11-2005, 09:50 PM

50+ years ago, when I found the finest piece of literature ever published
(well, to me, at that age, it was), under my parent's bed (I don't remember
what the hell I was doing under there at the time), a book about
THE FACTS OF LIFE - SEX - checked out from the local public library
(IT HAD MY MOTHER'S LIBRARY CARD IN IT!!!
- talk about mixed, confusing, emotions and potential life-long trauma).

(was that a runon sentence?)

As I remember it, the explanation of orgasm included: ...come to a climax, or come.

I think the spelling was probably changed by some "author of erotic
literature," i.e., dirty book writer, so you'd know he/she meant
arriving at your sexual destination. As opposed to a bus stop or
train station. Or your Aunt Millie's house.