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I have seen smeg dishwashers too....but which came first?
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SMEG
I always assumed it was from the word smegma. I read that somewhere too..Z
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SMEG was founded by Vittorio Bertazzoni in 1948 as Smalterie Metallurgiche Emiliane Guastalla (metal enamelling factory) and it started off by doing fridges. It expanded to dishwashers, washing machines,(in the UK) flueless gas fires, hobs, washer dryers and freestanding range cookers. So the fridges came first...
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Interesting bexter and I thought all along that the story writers had made that word up.
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You never know, they might have. Convergent evolution I think it is called...when two creatures evolve the same sort of things even though they are not related and live in different parts of the world; like the hedgehog and tenrec, smeg! may have been created without any knowledge of SMEG.
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Wonder if there's any relation to shipoopi, if only by alliteration or rhythmic similarity.
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onder if there's any relation to shipoopi, if only by alliteration or rhythmic similarity.
I thought of shipoopi, too, but I doubt it.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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the worthless word for the day is: shipoopi
[neologism of Wolfe/Meredith?] slang a woman; the girl who's hard to get(?)
(Eric Partridge claims the slang meaning is simply 'a woman', dating from 1954.)
"Remember the halcyon days, when you could get a cheesecake shot of any shipoopi into any paper by announcing she had just been chosen Girl I'd Most Like To Be Snowed In With?" - Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers (1954)
Now a woman who'll kiss on a very 1st date, Is usually a hussy, And a woman who'll kiss on the second time out, Is anything but fussy, But a woman who'll wait 'till the 3rd time around, Head in the clouds, feet on the ground, She's the girl he's glad he's found, She's his Shipoopi. - Meredith Willson, The Music Man (1957)
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