How did the term MILF get popularized?

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I started hearing it and then I realized that it's making the rounds on sitcoms these days.
Assuming it stands for "Mom I'd Like to Fuck", where's the origin of this phrase? Streets to screen or vice versa?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

american pie i thought

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, pretty sure that's it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

i think the term 'yummy mummy' has now overtaken milf in popularity amongst my male friends. i guess it couldn't really have the same ring in the US where you say 'mom' though

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

i think the term 'yummy mummy' has now overtaken milf in popularity amongst my male friends.

Your friends are gross.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

grosser than people who use the term 'milf'? that's kinda judgmental. are you suggesting that people who have had children are no longer attractive? i think my friends use it as a compliment...

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh heavens, I'm not suggesting THAT. More like that 'yummy mummy' sounds like a perverted candy bar.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

! how can a candy bar be perverted? my mates use it in the same way they'd say 'she's really hot'.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

how can a candy bar be perverted?

You asked for it (and quite obviously, not safe for work)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

yummy mummy was a cereal!

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

i think the term 'yummy mummy' has now overtaken milf in popularity amongst my male friends.

has anyone posted either term on any of the teeny-as-mommy threads?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

gah, don't you people know your '70s trivia?

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

yummy mummy was a cereal!

Just add milf.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

sorry, but this is a roffle

http://www.eroticchocolates.com/leanleft.gif

― gear (gear), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

the "lean left"

― gear (gear), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

I find "Santa's Package" in that collection to be more piquant.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

i don't think my friends coined the term, i think it's reasonably common here! teeny will definitely be a yummy mummy by the look of her pics, she's foxy.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

that looks like an earthworm

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

Milf has one advantage, some people don't know what it is. I once tried to explain the concept to someone who'd never heard of it, and it was quite funny.

Also, if you mistype it it becomes "MIFL" which is sort of like ROFL, but about yummy mummies.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

that looks like an earthworm

Words every guy doesn't want to hear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

American Pie.

further put in place by the MILF Hunter.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

every guy with a chocolate penis anyway

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

"I got miffled last night! She was 44!"

― gear (gear), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

the choco-dick?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

cue blowjob funnies

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

Isnt Yummy Mummy some horrible brand name for yuppie preggers women beauty pampering services, or somesuch?

I dunno why, but the phrase reeks of Nigella Lawson and ladies dropping kids off in giant 4WDs at school.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

this was the cereal:

http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/quiz724outcome5.jpg

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

i've wondered where the term came from myself and have considered in depth research. my friends and i were using MILF (and variations such as TILF, teacher i'd like to fuck) a good 6 maybe 7 years before it was in american pie.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

"doooooode, that yummy mummy's got some monster mallows!"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

my older brother was totally saying it in the early 90s

― Mad Senti (jaxon), Thursday, 13 October 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

Yummy Mummy was a bear
Yummy Mummy had no hair
Yummy Mummy wasn't yummy
Mummy

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

I thought the term ("milf") got popularised through the use of 1,000,000,000,000s of spam emails?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 13 October 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

Yummy Mummy was certainly around when I was at school - burgeoning adolescent sexuality + kids being picked up by maternal parents = the obvious.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 13 October 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

grosser than people who use the term 'milf'? that's kinda judgmental. are you suggesting that people who have had children are no longer attractive? i think my friends use it as a compliment...

i think cannibalism is definitely more gross than oedipus complex

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

anyway the in-term is obviously "yo momma umami" which is the name of my new band

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

has anyone seen a gilf yet?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

A Goy I Like Fucking?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

gran

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Garu G?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

"Cougar."

A much better term.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.printmojo.com/PranksterTees/Images/6009/Dilf%20Bottom%20Shirt%20Thumbnail.jpg

I saw someone at a gaming convention wearing this t-shirt. It was out of the corner of my eye and I couldn't tell if the wearer was male or female.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

That is a wonderful, life-affirming t-shirt.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

On "One Tree Hill" last night, one teenage girl refered to her best friend's father as a "DILF." It's WB-approved!

― ng-unit, Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Pron n cheesy TV shitheads

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I saw someone at a gaming convention wearing this t-shirt. It was out of the corner of my eye and I couldn't tell if the wearer was male or female.

haha man...nothing would surprise me anymore...nothing.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

Yummy Mummy is stylish, hip, and affordable fashion forward maternity wear for hip mothers.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

my friends and i were using MILF (and variations such as TILF, teacher i'd like to fuck) a good 6 maybe 7 years before it was in american pie.

Agreed, I first heard MILF in 1993, possibly 1994 at the latest.

― it was a different shark (wetmink2), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

i thought it was pron spam too.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 14 October 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

has anyone seen a gilf yet?

That 50-year-old blast of hottttness in the Bowflex commercial.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Friday, 14 October 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Why are hot older/horny women called cougars? I've never figured it out. Are cougars in the wild known for taking younger mates or something?

This all reminds me of the horrifying 'things not to say at the moment of orgasm' thread - "you're my cummy mummy!"

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

Why are hot older/horny women called cougars?

The ones who are NOT hot are called cougars, dood.

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

I thought Mrs. Robinson was the archetypal cougar.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Milf

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

dlilf?

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is an active Islamic movement in the Southern Philippines. The area is called by the MILF Bangsamoro and covers southern portion of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago, Palawan, Basilan and the neighbouring islands—around one third of the Philippines in total. Twelve million Muslims live within this area and 8 million others.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

The MILF is believed to have 12,000 members.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

DILF has restored my faith in joke t-shirts.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

we were saying milf in 91. ive never seen american pie

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 14 October 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

I was saying milf when I was a toothless toddler in 1957. So there.

― Aimless, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

I remember seeing American Pie in the theater with my friend and he was laughing at "MILF" before they explained what it meant, so i was def goin around.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

it was

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

my friends were using the term 'milf' circa 1994/1995

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:49 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I knew what MILF meant prior to American Pie, but not a long time before. I'd say I started hearing it around 97-98.

― display names have been changed to protect the innocent (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

From OED

"1995 Re: Fabulous after Forty in alt.mag.playboy (Usenet newsgroup) 12 Jan., Those moms are babes!!.. We have a term for it around here, its [sic] called ‘MILF’... ‘Mothers I'd Like to Fuck.’ 2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 8 Oct. 236 Eight months along and too homely to be a MILF, [she] wears black spike heels. 2003 J. KENNEDY Wannabe iii. 57, I was going to end up one of those tools wearing hair gel and a pinky ring, pushing gym memberships on MILFs and husband hunters. 2007 Daily Tel. 20 July 10/4 [He] told the TV cook she was a ‘Milf’ during an interview on his BBC1 chat show."

OED uses the first written use of a word, so quite possible that it was used in speech for several years before appearing in print.

― featuring Strawberry and the Shortcakes (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

That's cool that OED accept usenet citations now!

― NotEnough, Monday, 13 April 2009 22:07 (seventeen years ago)

^^ that's a really funny development. ppl criticize the oed for privileging written english over spoken english in tracking the language. even when all kinds of terms get on tv and into movies long before they might be 'written' (and even tho the academic establishment as a whole is fine with movies and tv being 'texts' -- not that the oed = academe but u get me). but if they've taken usenet bs as 'writing' then that means all kinds of terms might get in before they get spoken. is lol in the oed?

― goole, Monday, 13 April 2009 22:11 (seventeen years ago)

tol-de-rol, tol de rol

Also in extended form tol de rol lol.

A combination of syllables used as the refrain of a song, and hence as an exclamation of jollity, or the like. Also as n. and attrib.

1797 F. REYNOLDS The Will V. ii, What, Mandeville! Howard! all together! all reconciled! Tol de rol lol!

― Euler, Monday, 13 April 2009 22:29 (seventeen years ago)

Tol de rol lol!

too overly long
didn't even
read or look
lol

― nabisco, Monday, 13 April 2009 22:35 (seventeen years ago)

lol

― Euler, Monday, 13 April 2009 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

American Pie > Internet Porn > Sarah Palin

― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Monday, 13 April 2009 22:57 (seventeen years ago)

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