VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 6 days agoSociety keeps changing the definition of normal wordsdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square198linkfedilinkarrow-up11.25Karrow-down110
arrow-up11.24Karrow-down1imageSociety keeps changing the definition of normal wordsdiscuss.onlineVetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 6 days agomessage-square198linkfedilink
minus-squareArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 days agoGoon literally started out as the big nosed henchmen of the sea hag in the Popeye comic strip in the 1930s. It got applied to refer to anti-union fighters very quickly before it became a general purpose word meaning low-level henchman.
Goon literally started out as the big nosed henchmen of the sea hag in the Popeye comic strip in the 1930s. It got applied to refer to anti-union fighters very quickly before it became a general purpose word meaning low-level henchman.