“I am the soul of politeness around frails, and never pull no rough stuff.”
-Steve Costigan
Frails: women
Galoot: galoot (ɡəˈluːt) or galloot n slang chiefly US a clumsy or uncouth person [of unknown origin] ga•loot (gəˈlut) n. Slang. an awkward, eccentric, or foolish person.
Bezark: troublemaker
Howthesomever: making consideration of the circumstances while drunk.
Dope: fight lore on a certain boxer, a scouting report
Yeggs: a burglar or safe cracker, early 20th century, unknown origin
Zowie: exclamation of astonishment or amazement
Map or maps: a fighter’s face
Bung: banged up, from the Dutch for clogged
Hokem: nonsense
Bunk: slang for messed up or stupid
Smackers: dollars
I will make it my masculine mission to resurrect the term frails for women, and will not apply it to such willfully womanly creatures as bug-men and sissies.
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Thanks to Cab Calloway, many of us never had lost the sense and meaning of "frail" .....
"Folks, here's a story 'bout Minnie the Moocher
She was a red-hot hoochie-coocher
She was the roughest, toughest frail
But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale ...."
So it's still alive, and CAN be brought back ....
"Dame" is probably beyond life-support, though.
So glad you are reading Costigan stories!
Howard had more boxing stories than I realized, 17 tales and 3 poems in this collection.
I think that "frails" would be a noble addition to the anti-wimp lexicon, alongside "soyboy" and "bugman". This needs to happen!
Frails it is, Sir.
>"Dame" is probably beyond life-support, though.
Maybe so, but "dame" is actually polite and respectful (being the cognate of "sir") whereas "frail" implies deficiency.
Someone on the web claims to have dated the origin of "frail" for "a female" to 1908—somehow. This same source also suggests that perhaps this came from Shakespeare/Hamlet: "Frailty, thy name is woman."
What's interesting to me is that "frail" may be the original of the term "frill" used for women in Lois McMaster Bujold's Barrayar (character-driven science fiction) series.
Fascinating, sir.
How about this:
Broad
Dame
Frail
Depending on their robustness?
More on the nomenclature:
occidentaldissent.com/2018/01/04/close-your-fcking-mouth