From meat that used to mean all food to sarcasm that once meant “to tear flesh,” this episode of Lexiconned explores twelve everyday words that have gone through total transformations. TJ guides you through their original meanings, when and how they changed, and what that tells us about culture, time, and language itself.

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Sources:

• Merriam-Webster’s “Words That Used to Mean Something Different”
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
• “Word Origins… and How We Know Them” by Anatoly Liberman

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