“Panty-waist stuff burns me”
Panty-waist is a term you don't hear often anymore. Though according to the Columbia Journalism Review, it still pops up every now and then:
“pantywaist” has endured, sometimes below the radar, as a mild slur, meaning someone who is weak; a sissy. It is almost universally applied to men.
That insulting definition of “pantywaist” (sometimes hyphenated as “panty-waist,” sometimes rendered as “panty waist”) first appeared in the 1930s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, about twenty years after the first mention of the garment itself. It’s not a common usage, and, as might be expected for something considered derogatory, it shows up mainly in letters to the editor, editorials, and, now, blogs.
That insulting definition of “pantywaist” (sometimes hyphenated as “panty-waist,” sometimes rendered as “panty waist”) first appeared in the 1930s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, about twenty years after the first mention of the garment itself. It’s not a common usage, and, as might be expected for something considered derogatory, it shows up mainly in letters to the editor, editorials, and, now, blogs.
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original source: Pittsburgh Press - Mar 19, 1943
Comments
Eddie, are you teasing
About your rancid garments?
Eddie, are you teasing
About your sixty tailors?
I'm coming over shortly
Because I am so portly
You promised you could fit me
In fifty Dollar suit - - :lol:
About your rancid garments?
Eddie, are you teasing
About your sixty tailors?
I'm coming over shortly
Because I am so portly
You promised you could fit me
In fifty Dollar suit - - :lol:
Posted by KDP on 10/13/16 at 12:44 PM
KDP - your comment made me smile bigger than I have all day... May the ghost of FZ look kindly upon you... :coolsmile:
Posted by beckiru on 10/13/16 at 02:54 PM
Happy to oblige, beckiru. My mind is full of warped references like that. That and a facility of nearly instantaneous free association. I can be a lot of fun at parties.
Posted by KDP on 10/13/16 at 05:01 PM
Ah the days of "fast talking high trousers"
No fancy fol-de-rol. Faaaab-u-louuus!!!
No fancy fol-de-rol. Faaaab-u-louuus!!!
Posted by Courtney on 10/13/16 at 07:00 PM
Love the lingo of the day:
"Plays fast ball"
"horse sense"
"The Yanks" ??
and he finishes his perfectly spelled diatribe with "durned fools"
"Plays fast ball"
"horse sense"
"The Yanks" ??
and he finishes his perfectly spelled diatribe with "durned fools"
Posted by Greg on 10/13/16 at 07:35 PM
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Posted by Richard Bos on 10/14/16 at 02:32 PM
We used to spell it panty waste as in a waste of good panties.
Posted by GFinKS on 10/20/16 at 09:57 AM
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