The winner this week is: “danger non stick cookware trots”.
This search was puzzling at first as I had not heard the term before. It sent me to Google to perform my own search, where I found this. Oh my, I am certainly not a fan of non-stick cookware, the dangers of which are well documented, but this is something I had not heard about!
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hey Will,
Thanks for stopping by my blog! Regarding this search, I haven’t heard the term “the trots” in a while, but are you saying you had never heard of it? I would have to say this is a very strange (and enlightening) search.
I didn’t get a chance to comment on your search from last week(?) on “how to get my wife to turn out the lights”. Now that one has to be in the Funniest Hall of Fame!
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Don’t remember ever hearing it. I took a further look, but could not find out the origin of the term. I did see that it is considered an “obscene” term. Weird indeed.
hi Will,
Never thought of it as obscene. Anyway, you asked the question so I did a little searching and found this exchange, indicating the term was used as early as 1808…
I remember hearing the term “the trots” as a kid. Made sense to me that one would need to move quickly but carefully to the bathroom.
Hi, a friend of mine has just used the saying : ‘backdoor trots’. I understand what it means but where did the saying come from?
: : Outhouses or privies are located outside in back of the house, usually.
: etymonline says “the trots” for diarrhea is recorded as far back as 1808. It is a play on “the runs”. Backdoor (whether this refers to outsides or backsides) adds emphasis (and makes it clear you’re not talking about horses running).
Outsides. As evidenced by the variations: backdoor quicksteps, backhouse trots, backyard trots. From “Dictionary of American Regional English,” Volume 1 by Frederic G. Cassidy (1985, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England). Page 119.
Anyway, Will, probably more than you wanted to know.
I kind of like the phrase “backdoor quicksteps”. I’ll have to remember that one.
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Yeah, thanks once again… I think, for your superb research skills, Steve! I thought the runs had to do with, you know, the runny consisten…. OK, that is indeed enough. I guess I should think twice before I make the search of the week posts. Now I do indeed know more that I probably wanted to know. I think we need to send this post out the backdoor. LOL!
The really bad thing is that I did not try the search before I put up the post to see what I got. Now when I run it, the first result is THIS POST!
…and thanks to this search I learned something. Anna
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