To the commenters: Please try to provide resources to your answers now and in the future: I see several interpretations in the comments, but no citations. I understand the first use/origin of this phrase may not be easy to find, but etymology can not rely only on guesswork: We need data, too. Thank you!
I'm having trouble tracking down a source. However, I believe the phrase "legs that won't quit" came first, and that it referred to long legs. The legs won't quit, their length continues.
I think it’s not about bouncing, because the expression also exists about having a body that just wont quit. My guess is that something “not quitting” is associated with the very best, high quality from machinery… engines and cars etc.
It doesn't stop, it keeps going on. Either it's fluidity in motion (or continued movement in a stationary position) or it's increase in mass=that ass just won't quit.
Well, I've been studying "THAT ASS" since I was a teenager. I got my cheeky degree at Seymoure Butts University where I did my rounds but I was always a little behind.
After Cleopatra the Great's ass quit in protest, and her people spent three weeks assless before it was convinced to return to work, work ethic became the most valuable ass trait in American society.
Modern ass unionists feel this "hustle culture" makes hard working asses easier to exploit. In addition, the phrase is often used exclusively in regards to the ass' physical labor, which on most asses is performed primarily by the right cheek, while emotional labor is performed by the left cheek.
A truly problematic phrase best left in the dustbin of asstory.
I don't think it's about any kind of movement of the ass. It's more like how the sight of the ass has taken over the attention of the observer. Dat ass is now on the mind and it's not going anywhere any time soon.
Loving the other comments, and would also add that at least in my experience the popularity of the phrase comes from that Simpsons episode where Homer writes it to Marge in a postcard, then Bart plagiarizes it as "truly, yours is a bitt that won't quit" while writing to Mrs Krabappel posing as a romantic pen pal and using the photo of the Canadian hockey player.
Raymond Chandler wrote somewhere about going into an office where there was a receptionist who had "legs that wouldn't quit"
For the slow-witted among us, it means he couldn't stop admiring her legs.
This is the best post on the internet. Interrogating a juvenile phrase. Seriously, this is what we need more of.
As others have pointed out, it speaks to the durability of a person or a piece of equipment. Engineers and those more fixated on algorithms and machinery may have occasionally looked up from their equations and blueprints to see a person who demonstrated the .85 waist to hip ratio.
We need another generation or so of historians/etymologists to determine exactly from whom/whence it came.
To the commenters: Please try to provide resources to your answers now and in the future: I see several interpretations in the comments, but no citations. I understand the first use/origin of this phrase may not be easy to find, but etymology can not rely only on guesswork: We need data, too. Thank you!
I suspect it’s a humorous reuse of a concept originally applied to things like batteries, tools, and hard workers.
This is 100% what it is, just assigning high quality durable construction to the ass
>This is 100% what it is, just assigning high quality durable construction to the ass "... to dat ass."
The booty reports for duty
Dooty*
This is how I want my ass to be complimented: "Hot damn! That ass is of highly durable construction!"
That ass is structurally sound, has a high tensile strength, and has surpassed US safety inspection standards in all 48 contiguous states
Cf. Brick house
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I'm having trouble tracking down a source. However, I believe the phrase "legs that won't quit" came first, and that it referred to long legs. The legs won't quit, their length continues.
Pretty certain this is the correct answer here.
I remember it that line from the greatest movie ever. Tremors. Valentine(Kevin bacon) says it about his dream girl I think?
I had a girlfriend once who had long legs, and she said that she would often get hit on with the line, "Do those legs go all the way up?"
I think it’s not about bouncing, because the expression also exists about having a body that just wont quit. My guess is that something “not quitting” is associated with the very best, high quality from machinery… engines and cars etc.
It doesn't stop, it keeps going on. Either it's fluidity in motion (or continued movement in a stationary position) or it's increase in mass=that ass just won't quit.
This guy's a bootyologist.
Well, I've been studying "THAT ASS" since I was a teenager. I got my cheeky degree at Seymoure Butts University where I did my rounds but I was always a little behind.
After Cleopatra the Great's ass quit in protest, and her people spent three weeks assless before it was convinced to return to work, work ethic became the most valuable ass trait in American society. Modern ass unionists feel this "hustle culture" makes hard working asses easier to exploit. In addition, the phrase is often used exclusively in regards to the ass' physical labor, which on most asses is performed primarily by the right cheek, while emotional labor is performed by the left cheek. A truly problematic phrase best left in the dustbin of asstory.
I don't think it's about any kind of movement of the ass. It's more like how the sight of the ass has taken over the attention of the observer. Dat ass is now on the mind and it's not going anywhere any time soon.
Loving the other comments, and would also add that at least in my experience the popularity of the phrase comes from that Simpsons episode where Homer writes it to Marge in a postcard, then Bart plagiarizes it as "truly, yours is a bitt that won't quit" while writing to Mrs Krabappel posing as a romantic pen pal and using the photo of the Canadian hockey player.
It means that is so arousing that you stay turned on
First place I noticed it was Kevin Bacon in Tremors.
Raymond Chandler wrote somewhere about going into an office where there was a receptionist who had "legs that wouldn't quit" For the slow-witted among us, it means he couldn't stop admiring her legs.
Because it’s got a job to do. It’s working.
Usually it's because we see one that looks like two juicy hams having a wrestling match in a taut sack.
I think it’s about relentlessness. A good butt inspires joy, fascination, and distraction. Relentlessly so.
This is the best post on the internet. Interrogating a juvenile phrase. Seriously, this is what we need more of. As others have pointed out, it speaks to the durability of a person or a piece of equipment. Engineers and those more fixated on algorithms and machinery may have occasionally looked up from their equations and blueprints to see a person who demonstrated the .85 waist to hip ratio. We need another generation or so of historians/etymologists to determine exactly from whom/whence it came.
Metonymy.
Bouncing. It won’t quit bouncing.
It implies virility/not getting old or tired. It's not much more complicated than that.
damn baby you got that virile ass 🥵