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phreeza
7 months ago
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Scandal at America's top science fair
Similar word also exists in standard German, where it originally meant "f*cker" but now just means a man who buys services from a prostitute.
rurban
7 months ago
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Freier is not F*cker, just someone who needs to pay for sex, and is more independent then
phreeza
7 months ago
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No it more likely comes from archaic "freien", which still is used for "to marry" but used to mean something slightly different ;)
fransje26
7 months ago
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They still use a variant of that word in Dutch: vrijen. With the old meaning.. ;)
actionfromafar
7 months ago
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The even older meaning is "courter".
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