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echoangle • today at 11:50 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Is grooming the right word here? The guy is 42, grooming to me has a pedophilic connotation.

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SirFatty • today at 12:00 PM

You should spend less time on 4chan.

avazhi • today at 11:55 AM

This is how groomed is used, yes. The sexually overt connotation is a very recent thing.

bell-cot • today at 1:11 PM

The word has a many meanings - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/groom

Squinting at a [Compact] 1971 Oxford English Dictionary - the pedophilic meaning postdates that edition.