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Did 'milf' come from American Pie?


Did this movie invent this now popular acronym? I know it was the first time i heard it

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Adam Herz mentionned that it existed somehow before, since he borrowed it from his bro. Maybe his brother invented it, though :-)

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This movie is what popularized the word in pop culture before the movie no one ever said. I graduated high school in 98 and never heard it once.

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it was around long before american pie

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It was definetly around. Herzs' brother read the script and next to Stifler's mom's description he wrote 'M.I.L.F.', Adam asked what it meant and the rest is history.


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I'm pretty sure "MILF" was around, I mean it had to be, but it seems like was more of an underground phrase that not everyone knew about. AP introduced it into the popular culture in 1999. I graduated high school in the mid 90s and I never heard the term before, or if I did it never really stuck with me. There was no acroynm that I can clearly remember for a hot older woman, I think we just called them hot moms or hot teachers. Or hot older lady, hot older babe, nice looking teacher, something like that. Like I said, I could have heard the term before, but it never stayed with me. AP is what burned the phrase forever into the popular imagination.

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I never heard it before AP.

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I certainly never heard it before, i always assumed either AP invented it or it was an American phrase that we mere scots were not privvy to until 1999.

I did find it funny when my little cousin who is 16 mentioned the word to me last week, then told me what it meant thinking I never knew!! A young uns today think they invented everything!!

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No.

I first heard it around 1993. It was definitely around before the movie. The movie was the first time I heard it in popular culture. It was regularly used before that though. The movie came out around the time I graduated from college, and we regularly used it before that.

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No American Pie did not invent it. I remember that the term were already in existent when surfing porn on the 90's. When I first watch that movie I immediately got what the joke was about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILF_%28slang%29

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Wtf my great uncle bobby invented it in 1927 after he made love to his best friends mother.

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The first I heard it was while watching this so I always assumed it's where it came from lol

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"American Pie" did not invent the term "MILF". It only popularized it. The term had previously been used on the internet. I swear I had a buddy who said it back in the early '90s.

What does MILF stand for? Mom Is Looking Fine. That is the clean version.

The concept of a MILF predates the term itself, as exemplified by Mrs. Robinson in the 1967 comedy classic "The Graduate".

Yummy mummy is a slang term used in the United Kingdom to describe young, attractive and wealthy mothers.

Cougar is a slang term that refers to a woman who seeks sexual relations with considerably younger men. It typically refers to women aged 30–40 years old.

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The concept of a MILF predates the term itself, as exemplified by Mrs. Robinson in the 1967 comedy classic "The Graduate".



To be fair, I don't think anybody was under the impression that American Pie invented good looking older women.

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"mom is looking fine" wow, I never ever heard that lol. I didn't even know there was a clean version. wow.

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"American Pie" did not invent the term "MILF". It only popularized it. The term had previously been used on the internet. I swear I had a buddy who said it back in the early '90s.


I heard it back in the early 90's. I heard it regularly in the mid-90's in college.

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I don't think I had ever heard of it until this movie.

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No. I first heard the term in 1989. My college roomate used it to refer to a hot 30-something woman in one of our classes. He insisted it needed to be utterd in a Scooby Doo voice.

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Milf was around long before this movie galvanized it into the minds of every guy. It's not original, just another thing this movie stole.

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Since there's MILFs, it would have been cool if the term FILF had also caught on,lol. They exist,too, you know.

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They're known as DILFs.

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