[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle

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Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest
in a teapot/cup/kettle

That ties in with the UK English I've encountered: a buck would be 
a young/small male deer, while a stag would have big antlers and 
do that scary rutting crash thing.

Cheers,

Dumbledad


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As an English teacher, I am mad at myself for not checking entomology in the
first place.

stag  
c.1185, probably from O.E. *stagga "stag," from P.Gmc. *stag- (see sting).
The O.N. equivalent was used of male foxes, tomcats and dragons and the Gmc.
root word probably originally meant "male animal in its prime." Meaning
"pertaining to or composed of males only" (stag party) is Amer.Eng. slang
from 1848. Stag film "pornographic movie" is attested from 1968.