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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•1 month agoThe whip used to whip the horse(s) pulling your horse-drawn buggy.
minus-squareDon_DickleOPlinkEnglish9•1 month agoThank you for educating me… i do appreciate it…no sarcasm.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•edit-21 month agoI did pause for a bit, pondering if it was actually some new slang… Then decided if I’m wrong then it’s only on the internet.
minus-square@SLVRDRGNlinkEnglish3•1 month agoThere’s no stopping the start of its rebirth in modern slang. Someone just needs to give it a new meaning.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoAh shit, they be 100% buggy whipping in their whip.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoThat’s actually amish talk “buggy whip”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoInteresting; here in Alberta a buggy whip is a flexible (fibreglass, at least mine is) flagpole for the back of your truck.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoHmm, I’m guessing that buggy whips were more like a flexible pole rather than the stereotypical Indiana Jones whip. So a thin flexible pole would make sense. Like when you’d whack your little brother with a long bendy stick when you were kids.
The whip used to whip the horse(s) pulling your horse-drawn buggy.
Thank you for educating me… i do appreciate it…no sarcasm.
I did pause for a bit, pondering if it was actually some new slang…
Then decided if I’m wrong then it’s only on the internet.
There’s no stopping the start of its rebirth in modern slang. Someone just needs to give it a new meaning.
100% buggy whip, yo.
Ah shit, they be 100% buggy whipping in their whip.
That’s actually amish talk “buggy whip”
Interesting; here in Alberta a buggy whip is a flexible (fibreglass, at least mine is) flagpole for the back of your truck.
Hmm, I’m guessing that buggy whips were more like a flexible pole rather than the stereotypical Indiana Jones whip.
So a thin flexible pole would make sense.
Like when you’d whack your little brother with a long bendy stick when you were kids.