What are you supposed to call a female d-bag?

*sigh* sorry for the misspellings

I think you answered your own question!

hat is the female for douchbag

douchebag is unisex. Also, d-bag can be used for douchebag,

3. Dirt-bag (1967). This is not attested in the OED, but appears in the Collegiate and is defined "a dirty, unkempt or contemptible person." When I decided to to an Internet search for the term, one of the first entries I pulled up was the "MSN: Encarta" online encyclopedia. Rather than providing me a definition, however, it said: "Language Advisory!! The dictionary entry you requested contains langauge that may be considered offensive." Oh, my. I guess I really have strayed very far, haven't I? Maybe there is someone in the Eagle Forum or Focus on the Family who wouldn't like the term or, better, reserves the term only for liberals. Got to be sensitive to sensitivities.

4. Douche-bag (1963). I wonder if you guessed that douche-bag was introduced earlier than "dirt-bag." Even the OED has something about douche-bag. The word douche, with this spelling, goes back to the 18th century, but "douche-bag" doesn't occur until the 20th and, at first, in a medical context. For example, in a gynecological handbook for nurses, from 1908, we have the advice to "hang the douche-bag eighteen inches above the level of the patient's hips." By 1967, according to the OED, the term came into its more prominent contemporary usage: "Douche bag, an unattractive co-ed. By extension, any individual whom the speaker desires to deprecate." By the time I made it to the university in 1970, the language of "douche bag" was in the air, but it was almost universally applied to males. Once again, the males take over what properly belongs to women. Isn't that the complaint of the feminists? Well, at least we humanists finally took over a scientific term and used it for our own noble purposes.

hat

Also, d-bag can be used for douchebagdirtbag.

felicity, im not disputing it, but when did you become an expert on douchebaggery

not disputing yr expertise, i mean

I started researching this last December. remy and a couple others seemed to like the idea, so I kept going.

oh L.A. i miss ur d-baggy wys

Suggestion for female d-bag label: Irma la Douche.

omg awesome

douchée

If hat = female douchebag then female douchebaggery = haberdashery?

that skank was a total haberdash

douchebaguette

Oh very good. Douchesac, douchehandbag, doucheclutch, douchetote, douchetotette also seem feminine.

Pass the douchbag on the left hand side

I hate this word. It makes me cringe. Why was it ever revived? (it was revived after a long absence, right?) I remember people using it circa late-'80's?..and then a few years ago it seemed like it was introduced back into the venacular. I blame John Stewart, perhaps unfairly.

Whenever someone uses it I can't help but visualize Andrew Dice Clay.

I prefer the generic standbys "jerk" or "asshole".

"fuckwad" or "shitheel", even...

...though I probably reserve the latter two more for self-deprecatory contexts.

asshole is timeless

douche bag style

meanwhile clutching a Dooney and Bourke purse

Dooney and Bourke: the original "douche" bag?

a colon cleanse

Felicity, I hadn't heard of those bags before and then eeek! the horror of those imgs!

Him: doucherocket
Her: twatwaffle

the douche and douchess of baggery

penis pump

baguette

^^ ftw

i am liking baguette why because it is intersting.

baguette. this is real.

jockstrap

omg baguette

WINNAH

This never really caught on.

douchetart?

Wait, I'm still trying to figure out how Suzy had never heard of D&B. They've had ads in, like, W since at least my adolescence!

I know, the Queen of the 80s royal shocker!

baguette is totally happening, it's just i haven't needed to insult a woman this week yet.

The most disgusting, insulting term in this thread has been: Andrew Dice Clay.

OWH!

hat

er, the diceman, it's true. but baguette, yeah, that's pretty great

fuck washing a douchebag

OWH!

now that's just lazy + ENVIRONMENTALLY INCORRECT

*points to back of leather jacket that says DOUCHEBAG

I'm with 'hat'. Not only did I assert it subconsciously, which must count for something, but it's easy to say... and it just kind of works.

What a fuckin' hat!

all I'm saying is that when Grease 3 hits the theaters, there is gonna be a stampede on pink leather jackets w/"BAGUETTES" embroidered on the back

In the interest of philological rectitude, I feel compelled to point out that baguette, in French, means 'wand'.