Pidge?
Today’s question is: Why would someone wear a pidge?
Background: First off, if you don’t have a pidge or know what one looks like you can check it out here. It’s a small scarf really. My girlfriend forwarded a Daily Candy Everywhere email to me with the description and link this morning. I thought it was cute and interesting, while very expensive. I knit and I’m fairly certain I could knit one for less. However, I, most likely, wouldn’t be using Italian cashmere.
After I read the email, and about the pidge, I couldn’t get the name pidge out of my mind. It sounds sort of funny, don’t you think? P I D G E, pidge. Hmmmmm. Well I decided to find out what a pidge is exactly. Not an easy task. I finally found a definition in the urban dictionary. This is the slang dictionary. In my opinion, the only one that counts when naming a new item of clothing. Here’s why:
From Urban Dictionary
1.Pidge
A somewhat misogynistic term to describe a woman who is generally dumb, acts immature and is on the whole lacks intelligence.
Don’t worry about what she said, she’s just a pidge.
by Ross Sep 8, 2004
2.pidge
Short for ‘pidgeon hole’
Used (probably not exclusively) throughout the university of Oxford, UK
eg “I’m going to check my pidge”
Also (less commonly) used as a verb ‘to pidge’, translates as “to check ones pidgeon hole”eg. “what are you doing?”"I’m pidging”
by Danthemanwiththebighandspan Oxford Oct 3, 2005
3.pidge
Reasonably tall, but slightly retarded football player (that’s European football, you know, real football). Plays right back for Edinburgh Shitty Colts at Shitehill, Edinburgh. He is shit. Will definitely be the next David Beckham, because he takes wonderful free kicks which he curls into the top corner. His talents include kicking the ball out for an opposition throw in, usually near his own goals. He plans to play for Scotland when he grows up. He will grow a moustache.
When in doubt, Pidge it out!!
by Pure Solid Jim Nov 24, 2003
Now, I bet the people over at 3fe didn’t even think of this, huh? Yikes!
EDITED TO ADD: after reading sc’s comment I absolutely feel it is necessary to add that if you take the example sentence in definition 1. ……“she’s just a pidge” and add “wearing a pidge”. You have “she’s just a pidge, wearing a pidge”, does it translate to she’s just a dumbass, wearing a scam?
For $275???? You’ve got to be fuckin’ kidding!!!
Here’s where the word “pidge” comes in, in this context.
It’s short for ‘pigeon’ as in a ‘mark’ or victim of a scam. Know what a “pigeon drop” is?
Someone said “let’s make these stupid things, they’ll cost us about a buck at the most, and I bet we can get some pigeons to fork over $275 for them.
Naming them after the mark is the ultimate irony.
SC
PS Your handling of the cross dressing incident was very< well played on your part.
Comment by SC — September 19, 2007 @ 9:58 am
sc – you KILL me!!! bahahahahahaha
Comment by colette — September 19, 2007 @ 10:32 am
I think I saw my neighbor wearing a pidge to church last fall. Otherwise, she has great taste. It reminds me of a dickie which is what short men wear because they can’t tuck their turtlenecks into their pants. I see a connection here.
Comment by Anonymous — September 19, 2007 @ 8:24 pm
omg anonymous, you are crackin’ me up! I want, no, I need to know, how much your fellow church goer paid for her pidge! LMAO
Comment by colette — September 19, 2007 @ 9:26 pm
Ew, I wouldn’t wear one of those things for multiple reasons, starting with that yukko name!
I think a person who might consider wearing a *pidge* might be the same kind of person to wear a *fashionable hat* for a polo match or something…I have no idea…certainly none of my peergroup “pidge”…
(Ew, typing out that word pidge gives me the same kind heebiejeebies I get whenever I have to say the word “vagina” out loud. Which, thankfully, isn’t very often. LOL.)
Comment by Laura — September 20, 2007 @ 6:44 am
Laura, you are too funny. Does vulva bug you as much? because if it does don’t read the cross dressing post. Pidge is a weird name, I completely agree. I’ve printed a picture of one out and I can’t wait to show my knitting teacher today, I’m sure we’ll all get a huge laugh (and maybe a few gals will want to make one! LOL Not sure why, of course).
Comment by colette — September 20, 2007 @ 7:27 am
I can barely bring myself to even type the word vul….vul….vulva. Ugh!
Comment by Laura — September 20, 2007 @ 7:42 am
bahahahahahahahahaha ~ laura!
Comment by colette — September 20, 2007 @ 7:57 am
I can see another posting coming on euphemisms.
Don’t get me started!
Comment by SC — September 20, 2007 @ 9:34 am
LOL, I WONDERED where the term pidge came from—makes sense that It’s from fleecing well-off pidgeons of their money!
There was a design from the 1880′s for something similar in a book called Victorian Crochet…it was called a ‘Crossover’ so it isn’t a new idea at all.
I actually love these for working outside in cool weather–kep my neck warm without loose ends to get hung up or in the way. I’ve make 3 or 4 using a mock knit tunision stitch and am liable to make some hats to match soon.
Comment by CountryKitty — July 1, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
come on now there’s nothing wrong with a Pidge!
Comment by Lisa Pidgeon — August 28, 2008 @ 2:59 pm