Learn English – Origin of the word “cum”

When I was growing up in the 1980s the word "boner" was also used as a synonym for "jerk" or "idiot" among adolescent and pre-pubescent boys.

For example, if your friend was being mean to a little kid or doing something stupid you might say, "Hey, don't be a boner."

"Boner" also means "a blunder or mistake," although that is a more dated use of the word. But its etymology, if you are interested, follows:

"blunder," 1912, baseball slang, probably from bonehead.

It comes from America and the suffix -ana, of which the NOAD says:

(forming plural nouns) denoting things associated with a person, place, or field of interest: Americana | Victoriana.

Origin: from the neuter plural of the Latin adjectival ending -anus

I don't have any examples in mind other than those above: Americana and Victoriana.