Nice GAMS...What a DISH...

[Chad Sanborn]

People had odd names for women and their body parts. Gams, Dishes, Dames...
What other names did people use? Did women find them offensive?
What do you think a woman would say today if you told her she had "nice gams" or called her a 'dame'?

Chad

 

[Biltmore Bob]

Broads.....Baby Doll, Angel, Darling...

 

[Matt Deckard]

Hope none of the skirts take offense to this thread.

 

[jitterbugdoll]

Nah, it's all pretty entertaining. At least old slang has a bit more finesse when compared to the terms people use today!

Check out this link:
http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html

 

[Matt Deckard]

Nah, it's all pretty entertaining. At least old slang has a bit more finesse when compared to the terms people use today!

Check out this link:
http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html

Hey toots, what's shakin'?

 

[jitterbugdoll]

Now don't get too fresh, Matt--some tomatoes would be liable to punch you in the kisser!

 

[Deleted member 259]

bombshell, kitten, Canary (usually a singer)

Main queen -- favorite girl friend, sweetheart

Mouse -- Usually a small, very feminine girl who invites being cuddled

'Barn burner -- A very stylish, classy woman

While a Skirt was a woman, a Pro Skirt was a Prostitute.

Your Moll would be your girlfriend, But a GunMoll was a girl you didn't mess with.

And a Pidgeon might have been a young girl, but a stool Pidgeon would have leaked all your secrets.

 

[PrettyBigGuy]

Another unflattering term for a woman was a "frail". Also, In addition to "gams" women's legs could be called "stems" or "pins". As in "That frail's got pins up to here (usually accompanied by a holding your hand palm down beneath your chin)"

 

[jake_fink]

Gams from "gammon" which is a leg of pork. Classy.

 

[jamespowers]

Geez, did everyone forget Chick and Babe? I knew a woman who was nicknamed Babe because she was the youngest in the family. Talk about pressure for a 40s woman.

Regards to all,

J

 

[Biltmore Bob]

Dog (ugly)

Sheila (Aussie)

 

[Matt Deckard]

Now don't get too fresh, Matt--some tomatoes would be liable to punch you in the kisser!

You know me, Never too fresh, aspiring gentleman.

 

[shamus]

If anyone has the New York Confinential paper, check the back few pages. Like an early Dell Map on the back, it had a list of terms used in the book and what they ment.

A newish one that I've learned here on the west coast is surfer slang taken from the Flintstones...

Betty: Good looking girl
Barney: Guy who's not cool or a surfer

 

[flat-top]

Check this out also!
http://leepresson.com/slang.html

 

[Biltmore Bob]

I was looking for that slang stuff...

when we were writing the Gumshoe thread...

 

[scotrace]

It can be dangerous

Some previously common terms now have different meanings. Got slapped once for asking, "Heya! How's tricks?"

 

[Biltmore Bob]

Toots...

 

[jake_fink]

You might want to check out this book.

 

[Biltmore Bob]

Freak, Fly Girl...

 

[BellyTank]

She was...

...a real Bombshell...
...make that an Atomic Bombshell-
more curves than eighty-eight and a Plutonium Blonde to boot.

My main Squeeze-

B
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