What does it mean?!
Cupid.com found that the language of love has changed and those words used years ago have become obsolete with many couples and singles today (16%) not knowing their meaning anymore. So we have rounded a few of them up for you, so you need not be confused anymore!
Carrying a torch- dating back to the Greek and Roman tradition of carrying a wedding torch, which is lit in the Bride’s hearth on her wedding night and used to light the hearth in her new home. Now it simply means that your infatuation with someone has never faded.
Courting- now called dating, the period before a couple get engaged or married. The test run before you commit essentially!
Wooing- this is trying to gain the love of a woman with a view to marrying her. Let’s face it there are not many men that think that far ahead now!
Dear John Letter- A Dear John Letter is a letter to a husband or boyfriend by his wife or girlfriend telling him that the relationship is over, generally because she had found someone else. (Just like in the movie- I get it now…..and the penny drops)
Having a dalliance- a sexual relationship that is not serious or lasting i.e. Friends with benefits.
Dance card- if its full then you are not on the market, but someone who has a half filled dance card means that they are willing to have a few relationships going on at once. A tart basically!
Make out- kissing, snogging, petting and necking- foreplay! Woohoo!
Pulled- you have attracted a person to such an extent that they will kiss and or have sex with you.
Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, Jonathan Culpeper, said: “This is all just part of normal language change. Words come and go; meanings shift.
“For example, in the past, it was not at all impolite to refer to your loved one as a ‘wench’. Now it is, and so we have moved on. And romantic language is not becoming more simplistic. For example, ‘carrying a torch’ involves a metaphor (the person still in love in the couple is the one carrying the flaming torch of passion), but so does ‘pulling’ someone (the person attracting someone is physically pulling them to towards them).
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