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Somewhere between, say, 1950 and 2000, the name "Dick" went from a common respectable diminutive form of the name "Richard" to almost exclusively being used as a slang term for penis. Is there any timeline of how this happened, and when it began to become frowned upon as a name?

by /u/whorish_ooze in /r/AskHistorians

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