Red cunt hair
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The Red Cunt Hair or RCH is a non-specific small unit of measure, used by engineers.[1] This tongue in cheek term is based on the concept of a pubic hair being of a small diameter. It can be used to describe a minor adjustment necessary, and is akin to terms such as 'a tad', 'a smidgen', etc.
It is thought to have originated in the late 1950s, as military slang.[2]
As red hair is generally more coarse than other hues, the small measurement of a single cunt hair can be further refined by declaring the necessary amount to be either the red or blonde variety - an RCH thus being a slightly greater, but still very small, measure.
The acronym 'RCH' can be used on engineering documents without explicitly declaring its taboo meaning, thus making it an in joke.
[edit] References
- ^ Partridge, Eric; Dalzell, Tom & Victor, Terry (2006), The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 041525938X, <http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mAdUqLrKw4YC&pg=PA1603&lpg=PA1603&dq=red+cunt+hair&source=web&ots=t0L43NofzD&sig=0rwzt1lSxUubsutx5WPEc2rHoT4&hl=en#PPA1601,M1> p.1601
- ^ Morton, Mark (2003), The Lover's Tongue, Insomniac Press, ISBN 1894663519, <http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tnwAlLgWEhAC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=%22cunt+hair%22+measurement&source=web&ots=kKHthO7FAu&sig=c12bKeZ40bYXSrI0gWYOaNVEYvE&hl=en> p.134
