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Re:Scandal at America's top science fair by phreeza on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @02:50AM (#40438038)
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.
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Re:Scandal at America's top science fair by rurban on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:36AM (#40438300)
Freier is not F*cker, just someone who needs to pay for sex, and is more independent then
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Re:Scandal at America's top science fair by phreeza on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:43AM (#40438347)
No it more likely comes from archaic "freien", which still is used for "to marry" but used to mean something slightly different ;)
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Re:Scandal at America's top science fair by fransje26 on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @04:09AM (#40438521)
They still use a variant of that word in Dutch: vrijen. With the old meaning.. ;)
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Re:Scandal at America's top science fair by actionfromafar on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @09:07AM (#40440470)
The even older meaning is "courter".
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