Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rurban 757 days ago
Freier is not F*cker, just someone who needs to pay for sex, and is more independent then
1 comments
phreeza 757 days ago
No it more likely comes from archaic "freien", which still is used for "to marry" but used to mean something slightly different ;)
link
fransje26 757 days ago
They still use a variant of that word in Dutch: vrijen. With the old meaning.. ;)
link
actionfromafar 757 days ago
The even older meaning is "courter".
link