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Bimbo is a term that emerged in popular English language usage in the early 20th Century to describe an often attractive, yet clumsy woman. The usage of this term began in the United States as early as 1919. The 1929 silent film, Desert Nights, describes a cheap female crook as a bimbo. This word derives from the Italian bimbo, a word of masculine gender that means (male) baby or very young (male) child (its feminine equivalent is bimba). The 50’s song “Bimbo”, about a toddler, was one of the early hits for the popular American singer Jim Reeves. Its first usage in English was for stupid men; it now is understood to mean a woman unless modified as male bimbo, himbo, or mimbo. Some still prefer the explicitly female variant bimbette, which has also entered The American Heritage Dictionary. Others use bimbette for a younger bimbo, because the suffix "-ette" signifies a smaller version as in French or Spanish "-ito/-ita" suffix. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Image File history File links Gnome-globe. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... In linguistics, grammatical gender is a morphological category associated with the expression of gender through inflection or agreement. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is an American dictionary of the English language published by Boston publisher Houghton-Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969. ...

In the english language a bimbo can also be someone who enjoys being pleased often by intercourse with unknown strangers. The archetype of a bimbo with sex appeal is much used as a stock character in comedies with sexual humor, an example being Christina Applegate’s character, Kelly Bundy, in Married... with Children. Alicia Silverstone’s character, Cher Horowitz, in Clueless is more accurately described as a valley girl, a similar archetype with more laughably unusual priorities and behaviors than are strictly derived from the bimbo themes of comical stupidity and sex appeal. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A comedy is a dramatic performance of a light and amusing character, usually with a happy conclusion to its plot. ... Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress, particularly well-known for playing the very attractive, promiscuous, dim-witted Kelly Bundy on the Fox television network sitcom Married… with Children. ... Married… with Children was a long-running American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in Chicago. ... Married… with Children was a long-running American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in Chicago. ... Alicia Silverstone, (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. ... Clueless is a 1995 comedy film loosely based on Emma by Jane Austen, but set in a Beverly Hills high school. ... For other uses, see Valley girl (disambiguation). ...

A beauty contest game called Miss Bimbo is an online game which players, often of young age, can purchase operations such as facelifts or breast implants in order to impress virtual boys. The game has received condemnation of parents especially in the British region.^[1] Facelift has several meanings: Facelift is an album by Alice in Chains; facelift is a cosmetic surgery procedure; facelift is the revival of a product through cosmetic means. ... Breast implant diagram A breast implant is a prosthesis used in cosmetic surgery to enhance the size and shape of ones breasts or to reconstruct the breast (for example, after a mastectomy). ...

An older comedy archetype of perhaps more direct resemblance to the bimbo is the dumb blonde—for example, the giggling, naïve characters portrayed by such sultry actresses as Marilyn Monroe or, as she appeared on Laugh-In, Goldie Hawn. Humor depicting blonde women as stupid is considered inaccurate and sexist. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Naïve is Industrial rock group KMFDMs fifth album, released in 1990. ... Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortensen;[1] June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe award winning[2] American actress, singer, model, Hollywood icon,[3] Cultural icon, beauty ideal,[4] fashion icon,[5] pop icon and sex symbol. ... Rowan & Martins Laugh-In was a United States comedy television show broadcast from January 22, 1968 through 1973 over the NBC Network. ... Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. ... Sexism is discrimination between people based on their Sex rather than their individual merits. ...

Variations

Himbo

The word "himbo" has been coined to describe a man who, were he a woman, would be a bimbo. ^[2]

Mimbo

"Mimbo" has a similar meaning to "himbo", being a portmanteau of "male" and "bimbo". This was coined in the season five episode of Seinfeld The Stall as a phrase Jerry used to describe Elaine's boyfriend Tony. A portmanteau (IPA: ) is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. ... The Stall is the seventy-sixth episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. ...

Reference

1. ^ Parents upset over online Miss Bimbo game for children. Taipei Times (2008-03-30). Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
2. ^ Williams, Rachel. (July 7, 2006). PA News Bling, Himbos in dictionary, but unlikely to use one. (writing, "A himbo is an attractive but vacuous man, the male version of a bimbo" as indicated in the latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.)

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See also

• Dumb blonde
• Tchotchke
• Twink
• Valspeak
• Valley girl