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Just to be fair.

(Himbo = male bimbo)

By Princess_Banana (Princess_Banana) on Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 10:29 pm: Edit

dont you watch 'Seinfeld'???

they have already incorporated the word 'mimbo' (male bimbo) into popular culture

Himbo? now that is just ridiculous!

By Excusememixed (Excusememixed) on Sunday, June 06, 2004 - 10:34 pm: Edit

I like both terms.

By Noodleman (Noodleman) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 08:22 am: Edit

Himbo rolls trippingly off the tongue, whilst mimbo moves more mumblingly.

By Newton_Jin (Newton_Jin) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 12:29 pm: Edit

What is a bimbo? Seriously, I really do not know.

By Noodleman (Noodleman) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 01:37 pm: Edit

Try google. If that doesn't help, you actually probably qualify as a Himbo.

By Noodleman (Noodleman) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 01:40 pm: Edit

bim·bo
n. pl. bim·bos
Slang. A woman regarded as vacuous or as having an exaggerated interest in her sexual appeal.
Slang. A vacuous person: “a male bimbo... who even has to be tutored... in the clichés that comprise the basic interview” (George F. Will).

himbo (HIM.boh) n. A man who is good-looking, but unintelligent or superficial.


Example Citation:


After three Garbage albums, Manson hasn't yet become a tedious pop princess. Undeniably charismatic, she can be distinguished from most of the pop world's thrusting teens and vainglorious himbos by one easy test: she has opinions.
—Sacha Molitorisz, "Talking Trash," Sydney Morning Herald, January 25, 2002


Notes:
The word "himbo" is the result of a linguistic sex-change operation that sutured the male pronoun him onto the usually feminine insult bimbo. (Although bimbo is often dressed in a gender-neutral suit that gives it a meaning similar to bozo; i.e., a stupid or useless person.) It's a better blend than the less intelligible mimbo (male bimbo) mix that was coined in a Seinfeld episode.


Earliest Citation:

After a ruckus at the Robert Redford press conference early in the two-week run that left one injured reporter, festival-goers were hungry for violence. (Sex was commonplace, from a Melanie Griffith look-alike stuffed into her gown like salami in spandex to the macho himbo who strutted the Croisette wearing a 16-foot python like a stole around his shoulders and neck.)
—Rita Kempley, "At Cannes, All Ham, No Glam," The Washington Post, May 29, 1988