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* Re: Is "kinky" a negative word?Steve Hayes
`* Re: Is "kinky" a negative word?CDB
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From: hayes...@telkomsa.net (Steve Hayes)
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Subject: Re: Is "kinky" a negative word?
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 by: Steve Hayes - Fri, 5 Aug 2022 07:25 UTC

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:56:39 -0700, bruce bowser wrote:

> On Thursday, February 8, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Nicole V Biamonte
> wrote:
>> On 6 Feb 1996, Liz Chen wrote:
>> > One of my friend insists that kinky is not a good adjective and
>> > mostly is used in erotic stuff. However, I heard people used it in a
>> > way as strange.
>> >
>> > What does kinky really mean?
>>
>> I think it started out meaning "twisted," in the physical sense --
>> for example, "her hair is really kinky." I don't think I would use that
>> construction, these days.
>
> Knappy could be used.

I've no idea what "knappy" means - as in "knapsack"?

But to me "kinky" mainly means not normal, or not your average whatever
-- something different. If can be good or bad, depending on the c ontext,
but I would mostly be inclined to use it positively.

If I described something as "kinky" it would usually be a sign of
approval.

I would never describe anything as "knappy" because I don't know what it
means.

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Subject: Re: Is "kinky" a negative word?
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 by: CDB - Fri, 5 Aug 2022 11:58 UTC

On 8/5/2022 3:25 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
> bruce bowser wrote:
>> Nicole V Biamonte wrote:
>>> Liz Chen wrote:

>>>> One of my friend insists that kinky is not a good adjective
>>>> and mostly is used in erotic stuff. However, I heard people
>>>> used it in a way as strange.

>>>> What does kinky really mean?

>>> I think it started out meaning "twisted," in the physical sense
>>> -- for example, "her hair is really kinky." I don't think I would
>>> use that construction, these days.

>> Knappy could be used.

> I've no idea what "knappy" means - as in "knapsack"?

The Hound spelled it wrong: it should be "nappy". Probably a word best
left in Black people's use.

"Adjective
nappy (comparative nappier, superlative nappiest)

Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy.
(US, informal, sometimes offensive) Of hair: tightly curled or twisted;
frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nappy

> But to me "kinky" mainly means not normal, or not your average
> whatever -- something different. If can be good or bad, depending on
> the c ontext, but I would mostly be inclined to use it positively.

> If I described something as "kinky" it would usually be a sign of
> approval.

> I would never describe anything as "knappy" because I don't know what
> it means.

Probably best not to anyway.

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Subject: Re: Is "kinky" a negative word?
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 by: Steve Hayes - Mon, 8 Aug 2022 02:06 UTC

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 07:58:08 -0400, CDB <bellemarecd@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 8/5/2022 3:25 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> bruce bowser wrote:
>>> Nicole V Biamonte wrote:
>>>> Liz Chen wrote:
>
>>>>> One of my friend insists that kinky is not a good adjective
>>>>> and mostly is used in erotic stuff. However, I heard people
>>>>> used it in a way as strange.
>
>>>>> What does kinky really mean?
>
>>>> I think it started out meaning "twisted," in the physical sense
>>>> -- for example, "her hair is really kinky." I don't think I would
>>>> use that construction, these days.
>
>>> Knappy could be used.
>
>> I've no idea what "knappy" means - as in "knapsack"?
>
>The Hound spelled it wrong: it should be "nappy". Probably a word best
>left in Black people's use.
>
>"Adjective
>nappy (comparative nappier, superlative nappiest)
>
>Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy.
>(US, informal, sometimes offensive) Of hair: tightly curled or twisted;
>frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)"
>
>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nappy

AmE=diaper.

--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

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