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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins 49. The word origin today is
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dreamboat. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here if someone first to another
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person as a dreamboat it means he or she is extremely attractive and good-looking. All right.
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This term does tend to be used more with young men than with women. Yeah. I almost
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always hear it used with men. I can't I really almost can hardly think of any
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examples of it being used with women. Anyway. Let's continue here. The origin is
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believed to come from a 1936 hit song named when my dreamboat comes home. Okay.
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It was originally written and performed by Guy Lombardo.
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So a guy originally wrote it so and there... and when we see here you know , some of
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the famous artists that did sing it. So you did have some men singing. So they
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must have been singing it about a woman at the time. So at least in the song, it
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did refer to a woman, but in regular everyday speech I almost hear always
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hear it referred to as a man. So it was originally written and perormed by Guy
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Lombardo. However the song has been remade many times and sung by numerous
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famous artists such as Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, Fats Domino, Ray Charles , Bing
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Crosby, and even Bugs Bunny sang it in a cartoon. Now these were all a while ago, I
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mean I don't know anybody recently that did it, but that doesn't mean that the
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term doesn't exist anymore. The term is still around , you still might hear
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somebody referred to as a handsome guy, as a dreamboat. Okay. Let's continue here.
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The song makes reference to the return of one's love in a romantic way. You know
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and they're almost referring to them as... well they are referring to them as the
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dreamboat. The dreamboat is their love that's coming back. But anyway here's a
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couple of examples of how we we do actually use it. So example number one.
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You know, maybe another girl or some somebody
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might be saying to this girl "wow, you are so lucky. Your new boyfriend is a
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dreamboat. " Or a real dreamboat. Or number two here. You might have many handsome
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male actors in the past have been referred to as dreamboats. All right. So
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these are two examples. These are two ways that you might hear it be used.
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Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.