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Phrase of the day 2/17

5 years ago

Bobby pin

Until women started cutting their hair short in the flapper era, the word bob had been used chiefly to describe docking horses’ tails. It is supposed that the first hairpins designed to hold the newly cut hair may have been called bob pins, but the well-known penchant for the terminal –ie or –y soon made itself felt, and the pins became bobbie pins or bobby pins.

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