murse
murse – sostantivo
Forget about nicknames such as ‘murse’ and ‘manny pack’. The right man bags are masculine and stylish.
I had the medium but people were like ‘Great murse, dude’ so I bought the large.
I’ve had briefcases, I’ve had messenger bags, I’ve had backpacks, I’ve even had a murse or two.
Hot Scott is not a doctor but a murse – a male nurse.
We want this to be a page where we can communicate with murses across the country.
La parola macedonia di recente conio, murse, ha due significati molto diversi tra loro: uno è ‘borsa da uomo’ (purse è l’equivalente americano del britannico bag), l’altro è ‘infermiere’.
Il sostantivo nurse non differenzia tra i generi per quanto, anche in questi tempi di maggiore attenzione al linguaggio di genere, lo stereotipo nurse = infermiera è duro a morire (qualcosa di simile è successo a manny, da man + nanny, ovvero il ‘tato’, il ‘bambinaio’; come se fosse scontato che occuparsi dei bambini sia una prerogativa tutta femminile). L’alternativa a murse nel senso di borsa è manbag o man bag, già in circolazione da qualche tempo, e poi c’è sempre il più generico bag.
Se dovessi scommettere sulla sopravvivenza di uno solo dei significati darei vincente quello di borsa per il semplice fatto che nell’altro la ‘m’ iniziale potrebbe essere presa per un refuso e dunque richiedere una spiegazione.
Origini del termine
Murse nel significato di borsa è la fusione di man + purse e in quello di infermiere è la fusione di man/male + nurse. Entrambi i sensi del termine hanno origine nel nostro secolo e la diffusione del significato di infermiere si deve alla serie tv americana Scrubs – Medici ai primi ferri.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
murse – noun
Forget about nicknames such as ‘murse’ and ‘manny pack’. The right man bags are masculine and stylish.
I had the medium but people were like ‘Great murse, dude’ so I bought the large.
I’ve had briefcases, I’ve had messenger bags, I’ve had backpacks, I’ve even had a murse or two.
Hot Scott is not a doctor but a murse – a male nurse.
We want this to be a page where we can communicate with murses across the country.
The recently coined blend, murse, has two completely separate meanings. On the one hand it means a handbag (or purse, the preferred American term) designed for and used by a man; on the other a male nurse.
There are alternatives to both terms, of course. Nurse is a non-gendered term, so a nurse can as well be a man as a woman, even if the stereotypical image is female (a similar process has occurred with manny, a male nanny; but who’s to say a nanny has to be a woman?) Similarly there are alternatives to murse for a bag carried by a man: if you want to be gender specific there’s manbag, which has been around for longer than murse; or there’s plain bag, of course.
As for which, if either, will survive, my money would be on the bag meaning, simply because the nurse meaning can look like a typo and so often needs clarification.
Origins
Murse is a blend either of man + purse or of man/male + nurse. Both terms have come into being in the current century, with the nurse meaning being popularised by the US hospital sitcom Scrubs.
