What does bimbo really mean?

Question

cos many people also call brunettes bimbos when they say something wrong?
what's the real story behind it?

Answer 1

Bimbo is a term that emerged in popular English language usage in the late 20th Century to describe a stupid, pliable woman. This term began as early as 1919.[1] For instance, in the silent film, Desert Nights, it 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). 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. The word bimbo is sometimes interpreted as the backronym "Body Impressive, Brain Optional".

A bimbo isn't necessarily highly sexually attractive. Being a bimbo is a state of mind, and reflects a person who exaggerates the effort and value put into her physical attractiveness. She is often perceived to be shallowly focusing on her physical appearance and neglecting or even willfully stifling the development of other parts of her personality.

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. An older comedy archetype of perhaps more direct resemblance to the bimbo is the dumb blonde—for example, the giggling, naïve characters often portrayed by such sultry actresses as Marilyn Monroe. Humor deriving from blonde women's (or male jocks') stupidity has been accused of sexism


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

Answer 2

What Does Bimbo Mean

Answer 3

Bimbo is a term that emerged in popular English language usage in the late 20th Century to describe a stupid, pliable woman. This term began as early as 1919.[1] For instance, in the silent film, Desert Nights, it 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). 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. The word bimbo is sometimes interpreted as the backronym "Body Impressive, Brain Optional".

A bimbo isn't necessarily highly sexually attractive. Being a bimbo is a state of mind, and reflects a person who exaggerates the effort and value put into her physical attractiveness. She is often perceived to be shallowly focusing on her physical appearance and neglecting or even willfully stifling the development of other parts of her personality.

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. An older comedy archetype of perhaps more direct resemblance to the bimbo is the dumb blonde—for example, the giggling, naïve characters often portrayed by such sultry actresses as Marilyn Monroe. Humor deriving from blonde women's (or male jocks') stupidity has been accused of sexism.

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What does bimbo really mean?
cos many people also call brunettes bimbos when they say something wrong?
what's the real story behind it?

Answer 5

Depends on who you ask...

bimbo Noun. A young attractive empty headed woman. Derog.

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/b.htm

Bimbo
Noun
1. A young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men.

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/bimbo

Answer 6

a bimbo is someone who is big busted with blonde hair who no's nothing suppose you could use simpleton to really, hope this answers your question for you

Answer 7

Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimbo

Answer 8

A woman regarded as vacuous or as having an exaggerated interest in her sexual appeal. I googled the answer :-) .

Answer 9

In Italian it means a little boy. (Bimba is a little girl).

Answer 10

girl who wears lots of make up and her main priority in life is fashion and not education