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Free word lists and quizzes from Cambridge. Tools to create your own word lists and quizzes. Definitions of beaver. Synonyms: beaver fur.
Synonyms: castor. Synonyms: beaver away. Beaver n. What is the etymology of the word beaver as it relates to a woman's vagina?
Improve this question. Not to split hairs, but "beaver" refers to the pudenda, not the vagina. My understanding was that it was because they both "eat wood" — d'alar'cop. I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it seems to me to be frivolous. It has drawn some amusing and mildly interesting answers, but not really or, at least principally about language and usage itself. The question, even though on the surface answered according to ELU's prescribed methods of research, leads in a direction that should be avoided.
If that sounds long-winded, it's because I couldn't find an idiomatic phrase that would not prolong the 'joke'. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. HaL HaL 8, 1 1 gold badge 33 33 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Lighter mentions this game in an earlier definition of beaver : 3. Here they are: Each player on sighting a beaver should call out " Beaver " and score one point.
A player may huff another for not seeing a beaver and count four points. Calling " Beaver " during a golf stroke is forbidden. From " Parliament: From the Gallery: A Sitting Short but Not Sweet " in the Sydney [New South Wales] Morning Herald January 12, : Depressed by the lassitude of a pitifully short vacation and the damp heat of this scantily ventilated room, members just spread themselves out and breathed heavily. And from Mercurius, " Passing Notes ," in the [Hobart Tasmania] Mercury October 22, : "Mercurius" inclines to think that these "scalers" [of out-of-date tram tickets] are the stuff that dreams are made of, like those angelic beings who "scaled" Jacob's ladder.
Conclusion It is quite astonishing that the "young lady named Eva" limerick's takeoff on the street game of Beaver—a game that seems to have hastened the demise of the beard during the early decades of the twentieth century—has evidently had far more cultural staying power as judged by popular slang than the original game itself.
Community Bot 1. Sven Yargs Sven Yargs k 30 30 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Lori Lori 77 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. FumbleFingers FumbleFingers k 45 45 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. There was a young lady named Eva Who went to the ball as Godiva, But a change in the lights, Showed a tear in her tights, And a low fellow present yelled "Beaver".
Brian Hooper Brian Hooper Is Green's accessible online anywhere? Callithumpian, not so far as I know. The author does remark in the introduction that it may be the last book of this type ever to be printed. It would be funnier if it rhymed. He proclaims as commonsense fact this tidbit of vocabulary in explanation of his title, " Beavers and Beaverages ": Everybody who knows anything at all about beards knows that a bearded man is technically a "beaver," while a beard is, to the expert, a "beaverage.
In short, this prior occurrence of beaver pushes back the timeline on the approved answer by three years, and suggests three stages for beaver coming to refer to a woman's netherhair: Around , beaver appears as a beard or beard-wearer, often in derogatory or mocking usage.
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