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Randy D

Back in the 1940s, popular terms for referring to women were dame, broad, dish, tomato, etc. Can you list any others?

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Posted - September 17, 2016
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  • 489
    Tomato?? Really?
      September 17, 2016 5:40 AM MDT
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  • 53509
    Lol, yes! Not only that, a RIPE tomato was even better!
    :)
      September 17, 2016 6:56 AM MDT
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  • bird
      September 17, 2016 7:00 AM MDT
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  • 53509
    I thought that was more 1960s?
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      September 17, 2016 7:03 AM MDT
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  • 14

    I still use broad for terrible women.  It is better than the other B word.

      September 17, 2016 7:32 AM MDT
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  • Nah, it`s more of one that stayed popular until the 60's and 70's. Kinda like broad did.

    I listen to a lot of old radio serials from the 30's and 40's and you hear it used fairly often in them.
      September 17, 2016 7:32 AM MDT
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  • 53509
    Thank you.

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      September 17, 2016 3:42 PM MDT
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  • "Floozie" .... The original lyric, recorded in January 1938, was "flat foot floozie with a floy floy"; Vocalion, however, objected to the word "floozie", meaning a sexually promiscuous woman, or a prostitute. The second recording in February changed the word to "floogie". In the second part of the title phrase, "floy floy" was slang for a venereal disease, but the term was not widely known and failed to catch the attention of censors. It was regarded as nonsense and came to have positive connotations as a consequence of the song. 
      October 5, 2016 7:48 PM MDT
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