Far from being a neologism, this slang for "a woman of easy morals" has been around at least since the 1940s.
I don't remember what I was doing,(See here.) but I happened across it in the "monumental American Thesaurus of Slang by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van Bark (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1952), which covers everything" (Paul Dickson, Slang, 1988).
Among the ~200 entries at 439. Woman of easy morals were these previously unknown to me designations
for a woman of easy virtue: demi-rep, faloosie (The unusual spelling is what's new to me.), fizgig, fluzie
(sp), frail flossie, gay1 wench, gay woman, gill, hard-boiled baby, huzzie (sp.), jane, Kate, pashy petter,
sack, scrunch, slack-puller, speed-dame, speedster, swift baby, touchable, tough baby, traipsing twerp, wild party,
wised-up babe, zipper-moraled Susie, Madamoizook (the French variety).
1 How many people these days are familiar with a dated meaning of gay, still being used
in the 1940s, when The American Thesaurus of Slang (TATS) was published?
"debauched: leading a debauched or dissolute life."
My own copy of TATS came through an estate sale. It might not be an overstatement to call the worn copy
in my hands a word lover's treasure, annotated as it is by the book's previous owner.
Judging from the address embossed on the first blank page at the front of the book, I have to think "estate"
is the right word. "Mr. Brown" lived in Tulsa Oklahoma's longest-established high-rent district. He's the only
person I've ever seen who writes smaller than I do. I'll have to locate a magnifying glass to read his notes,
especially his cross-references. I'll miss too many goodies otherwise.
I'm going to check online bookstores to see if I can find copies for sale -- and hope I can afford them.
(Whatever copies were going for when I first wrote this, about the cheapest I can find now is $70.00 -- and at
least one is offered for ~$350.00. That's too much for my pocketbook.) I'd like to send copies to my grandkids
for Christmas. Strangely enough, I think all except the youngest (a four-year-old) would be quite pleased.
(Hmmm, strange that I should think that or strange that they might well like an old slang thesaurus as a gift?)
Brown seems to have had an abiding interest not only in oil field slang, but also in the slang used to describe the
"naughty parts" of the body . . . as well as the associated bodily fluids and functions. In addition, he made several
notes for drunkenness, my favorite being "drunker than a waltzing piss-ant" -- the waltzing part being what
is new to me. TATS itself has three full pages for drunk and dead drunk.
Do you still wonder what someone has in mind when she says "I like pie" or "Pie is good?" Uni-poster lulupie asked us about that oncet
upon a time. Finding "pie, piece, and piece of tail" in a single character string in TATS removes
any lingering doubt for me. (To be truthful -- always the best policy -- there never was any doubt for me.) So, I'll now give a definite answer to lulupie: Yes, my dear, "I like pie" and "Pie is
good" do have a sexual meaning.
. . . Having come across this entry while doing some clean-up, I re-googled and found a review of TATS, from "Monday,
Mar. 02, 1942." The style of the date is antiquarian, and so is some of the language in the review.
While I continue to marvel at the completeness of the thesaurus with its more than 100,000 slang words, the
review reminds us how daunting it is to come up with more than a snapshot of the slang of any given moment.
You might as well try to catch a bird in flight with your bare hands. . . . Wait, that's something I've done more
than once. Hummingbirds only. With the aid of a window in a stairwell, I held three hummingbirds in my hands
in the space of about two minutes. They're even tinier than you might think -- what you see is mostly feathers.
Примеры использования:
There were only a few internet references to Paris Hilton as a debutart. The designation is obvious enough and may fit her even better than celebutard or celebutart, given that it was a pornographic video that brought her her notoriety -- and turned the celebutart into a celebrity. Would it be fair to call Paris Hilton a bimbo? I don't know. Is she stupid?
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