Bædan: journal of queer time travel

The Modern English word ‘bad’ came into common usage about four centuries ago, before which ‘evil’ was the predominant term. The successor was derived from the Old English derogatory term bæddel, and its diminutive form bædling, meaning effeminate man, hermaphrodite, pederast. This in turn was derived from bædan, meaning to defile. https://baedan.noblogs.org/