jacobwebber
jacobwebber
21-09-2016
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what is the oldest known eupheism
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CoryLynn14
CoryLynn14
21-09-2016
So they came up with this word — this is up in Northern Europe — bruin, meaning "the brown one" as a euphemism
, and then bruin segued into bear. We know the
euphemism
, but we don't know what word it replaced, so bear is the
oldest-known euphemism
.
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