Bimbo
A male brute? A female airhead? A Mexican bread?!?
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6 min readJul 9, 2021
Today’s New York Times Spelling Bee letters:
B, I, L, O, T, Y, and center M (all words must include M)
Merriam-Webster says…
Silly little dictionary! Don’t you know bimbo can’t possibly be a word if the New York Times says it ain’t?
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What’s your favorite dord* from today’s puzzle?
My Two Cents
Today the word bimbo is used almost exclusively as an insult to women, although — as Magdalene Taylor explained in Mel Magazine — there is now a movement headed by Alicia Amira that is trying to own the term by proudly self-identifying as bimbos.
To that end, she has created a clothing brand aptly named Be a Bimbo, where she sells “pink, shiny and gaudy fashions associated with the bimbo identity”.
