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I was told this story years ago and have always been curious about it. An Englishman was cataloging blades in the Afghanistan area in the early 1900s. He asked his native helper to hand him the next blade and the Afghan said "choora". The name stuck. I have a friend working in Afghanistan right now and I asked him to ask their interpreter what "choora" means. I received this Sunday 2-18. Choora means roughly to be emasculated. It is a derogatory term to tell someone that he cannot be with a woman as he has lost his manhood. It is the same word in Farsi, Pashtu, and Dari.
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I took it to be a slang expression like "Saturday Night Special" or "Pig Sticker" etc. bbjw |
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Perhaps my imagination is being overactive, but a slight editing of the original post yields another possible interpretation:
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Now we venture into something malevolent: castration, mutilation... Which version is correct? |
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The gentleman in question was Lord Egerton of Tatton. Heard that story many years ago and it may well be true.
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I guess another possible variable is whether Lord Eggerton helper was Afghani or Indian? {I would imagine most of his staff would be Indian?}
Choora is also used in India by Hindus as a derogatory term meaning, "low class" often used offensivly against people of lower castes/ class, or of course even "untouchables" So perhaps Eggerton asked his Indian assitant "whats this?" & was told it was ""low class" the equivalent of "junk" perhaps? Spiral |
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