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jgorman64	Butt Antlers	Lead	[-]
Posts: 3698 (02/10/07 07:47:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Arschgeweih in German. Has this caught on anywhere in the English speaking world? Is there another word for the lower back tattoos on young women that appear just above the hip hugging pants. Something called the encyclopediadramatica suggests other terms and says it (Arschgeweih) was invented Last Thursday by a German Tattoo artist now living in the US.
DaveWilton	Re: Butt Antlers	#1	[-]
Posts: 7490 (02/10/07 08:12:48) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Never heard that one, although Wikipedia records "arse/ass antlers." But from references like this you can't tell if the term has any real currency or if it was a one-time use that someone added to the wiki. The slang term I've heard is "tramp stamp."
jgorman64	Re: Butt Antlers	#2	[-]
Posts: 3698 (02/10/07 10:22:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A German comic also calls them "Landehilfe" literally "landing aid." After googling more I also found "STD warning sticker" and "License Plate." Edit: said German comic might also be the originator of Arschgeweih.
Douglas Wilson	Re: Butt Antlers	#3	[-]
Posts: 408 (02/10/07 10:27:00) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	"Arschgeweih" has some substance, although I think it's pretty recent. Google Groups shows 80+ instances back to 2002. Google Books turns up about 6 German books employing the word, back to 2004. The [serious] Leo on-line G-E dictionary shows the word with translation "tramp stamp" and some discussion.
Dutchtoo	Re: Butt Antlers	#4	[-]
Posts: 714 (02/10/07 12:23:55) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hm, the things that catch our attention... I would have expected Dutch 'reetgewei' to be the equivalent for that, since it stays close to 'reegewei' (deer antlers) but it gets only 32 googlits. The obvious alternative 'kontgewei' gets 145 hits. Winner is 'aarsgewei' with 313 hits, which leads me to believe it is a loan translation of the German word.
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Posts: 1376 (02/10/07 15:02:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	There was a young lady of Yale Who put up her body for sale: For the sake of the blind She had her behind Tattooed with the prices in Braille.

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