This controversial term dates back to Richard Brome's 1588 comedy 'the Court of Malcontents'
In Act I Scene II, the following takes place:
Don Benedicto: Aha! and from whence hast this bough sprung?
Don Matheus: From the douche, no doubt!
Don Benedicto: The douche. The douche. Ye Gods man!
Tell me from whence hast the douche come ye can
Don Matheus: The douche is borne from yonder douche-bag.
Don Benedicto: Your humour does not humour me, sir. Begone or taste my steel.
Don Matheus: Thou steel be brittle, sir.
This pun is lost on most modern audiences, but in the play leads to Don Matheus and Don Benedicto fighting a duel (during the Edwardian period the word 'steel' would be pronounced very similarly to the word 'still', which then was used to refer to the way in which a mother holds her child. Don Matheus is implying that Don Benedicto's mother was incompetant. Indeed, he even goes as far as to suggest that Don Benedicto was dropped on his head at an early age, insulting both Don Benedicto's honour and intelligence).
'Douche' was a form of the old english word 'Douaché' meaning 'I sow'. It came to mean the seeds which farmers used to grow orchards (often apple orchards particularly). A douche-bag was a sack slung over one shoulder used to carry the 'douche' during sowing.
After this play, douche-bag eventually came to be associated with simpletons or fools (as it is the 'final straw' as it were of Don Matheus' ridicule which causes Don Benedicto to initiate a duel, which he eventually flees from - losing all face and honour as a gentleman).
This Elizabethan insult has in recent years resurfaced, particularly in the Americas, and has rapidly spread across the rest of the world thanks to recent innovations in communication technology.
In Act I Scene II, the following takes place:
Don Benedicto: Aha! and from whence hast this bough sprung?
Don Matheus: From the douche, no doubt!
Don Benedicto: The douche. The douche. Ye Gods man!
Tell me from whence hast the douche come ye can
Don Matheus: The douche is borne from yonder douche-bag.
Don Benedicto: Your humour does not humour me, sir. Begone or taste my steel.
Don Matheus: Thou steel be brittle, sir.
This pun is lost on most modern audiences, but in the play leads to Don Matheus and Don Benedicto fighting a duel (during the Edwardian period the word 'steel' would be pronounced very similarly to the word 'still', which then was used to refer to the way in which a mother holds her child. Don Matheus is implying that Don Benedicto's mother was incompetant. Indeed, he even goes as far as to suggest that Don Benedicto was dropped on his head at an early age, insulting both Don Benedicto's honour and intelligence).
'Douche' was a form of the old english word 'Douaché' meaning 'I sow'. It came to mean the seeds which farmers used to grow orchards (often apple orchards particularly). A douche-bag was a sack slung over one shoulder used to carry the 'douche' during sowing.
After this play, douche-bag eventually came to be associated with simpletons or fools (as it is the 'final straw' as it were of Don Matheus' ridicule which causes Don Benedicto to initiate a duel, which he eventually flees from - losing all face and honour as a gentleman).
This Elizabethan insult has in recent years resurfaced, particularly in the Americas, and has rapidly spread across the rest of the world thanks to recent innovations in communication technology.
by Professor Aston December 25, 2008
Get the Douche Bagmug. A person who thinks there badass but actually in real life no one likes them. In fact, people talk about them when they're not there, and try their best to stay away from them. They are the type of people who say the most stupid things, which they think are cool. They think they are the shit, but in reality they are douche bags
by Cool guy9534343 December 30, 2008
Get the [douche bag]mug. Douche Bags are people who are very disrespectful and somehow manage to think they are "it" when in actuality they are not. They are the bottom of the social chain with their low grooming standards and inconsiderate attitudes and yet they think that they are the upper crust of society walking around with an undeserved sense of accomplishment. Douche Bag is a great term for anyone who is arrogant. The amount of success for a person does not matter one way or another as long as that person is considerate of other people and not so ignorant.
Douche Bag: I am so much cooler than those people who work at Starbucks with my construction job. I decided I want to grow out my goatee another foot while I get 50 more piercings while I spend 500 more dollars to tatoo my entire back. I'm going to go back to my trailer and add another beer bottle to my 300 other ones on the counter. Yeah I'm better than you college students! You're worthless! I'm bad ass!
by WorkswithDouchebags August 1, 2008
Get the Douche Bagmug. A person who continuously argues with everyone around him, regardless of the validity of his opinions, simply for the sake of being difficult to deal with.
Man, every time I would say something, Scott Cooper would argue with me, even though he was always wrong. What a total douche-bag.
by coopersavirgin November 28, 2009
Get the Douche-Bagmug. 1.a pompous fucktard who fronts an undeserved sense of accomplishment.
2.a device used to clean your cooch
3.one who wears a polo shirt of any color(especially with the collar popped up)
4.k-fed
5.jennifer Grandholm(governor of Michigan)
2.a device used to clean your cooch
3.one who wears a polo shirt of any color(especially with the collar popped up)
4.k-fed
5.jennifer Grandholm(governor of Michigan)
david lee roth is such a boring douche bag. someone should sodomize him til he realizes he is a fudge reaming gooback.
by bastardly fucktard March 22, 2008
Get the Douche bagmug. You know you're a douche bag when you want to fight an old guy like Al Roker for dissing your slut of a wife.
by AllehChan June 17, 2009
Get the Douche Bagmug. 1) A bag that can contain vaginal discharge.
2) An insult that can be directed to many different groups of people, such as:
a) plain old idiots
b) idiots who think they actually know what they're talking about
c) People whose head are about to explode from their inflated ego
d) People who flaunt their ignorance in an offensive and outright manner.
For the cure to douche baggery please visit youtube, keywords "Cure for Douch Bags"
2) An insult that can be directed to many different groups of people, such as:
a) plain old idiots
b) idiots who think they actually know what they're talking about
c) People whose head are about to explode from their inflated ego
d) People who flaunt their ignorance in an offensive and outright manner.
For the cure to douche baggery please visit youtube, keywords "Cure for Douch Bags"
by Daisy91 November 3, 2008
Get the Douche bagmug.