Etymograph

English

himbo

Blend of him + bimbo, first recorded in 1988 and likely influenced by sex scandals in the US politics around the time.

A blend of him + bimbo

Proto-Indo-European *ḱís ‘this’

Proto-Germanic *hiz ‘this’

Proto-Germanic *himmai ‘to this, to this one’

Old English him ‘him’

Middle English him

English him

Italian bambino ‘child’

Italian bimbo ‘a child, a male baby’

English bimbo

first attested Blend of him + bimbo, first recorded in 1988 and likely influenced by sex scandals in the US politics around the time (as stated in the etymology)

The story

Blend of him + bimbo, first recorded in 1988 and likely influenced by sex scandals in the US politics around the time.

Today it means

noun A physically attractive man who lacks intelligence; the male equivalent of a bimbo.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / himbo