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0 pointsrurban2y ago0 comments

Freier is not F*cker, just someone who needs to pay for sex, and is more independent then

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phreeza2y ago· 2 in thread

No it more likely comes from archaic "freien", which still is used for "to marry" but used to mean something slightly different ;)

They still use a variant of that word in Dutch: vrijen. With the old meaning.. ;)

The even older meaning is "courter".

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