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Frankly, I've never heard nor read this word anywhere else but on this forum. So I'm Methuselah?
Apparently it's a very hip word now. I wonder how long it will last?
When I was a kid growing up in St Louis there were 'hip' words that have long-since lost their hipness. Like:
1) Cock - It wasn't your 'member' then. It meant that you were 'cool' and maybe 'good looking'.
2) Fruit - It didn't refer to homosexuals. It just meant you were a nerd.
3) Chuck - It wasn't a guy named 'Charles' nickname. It was a derogatory term that black kids used for white kids.
4) Gay - It was a pretty normal lyric in songs to imply that one was happy.
5) Black Guy or Black Girl - It was a suicidal statement used if you were stupid enough to want to get cut by a sharp instrument wielded by an African American.
6) Negro - It was a term of endearment to be used to describe folks of color.
7) Hoosier - Still a St Louis colloquialism that the rest of the world thinks of as people from Indiana. We here, still think of them as neighbors with pick-up trucks parked in front of their homes.
8) The Tonight Show - It was on every evening for HOURS starring Steve Allen and then, mostly, Jack Parr.
9) The Hill - It was called Dago Hill then and so did those that lived there.
10) Dogtown - No Irishmen ever lived there until about 20 years ago when they decided to name it this. Prior to that, ALL of the Irish from St Louis were from North St Louis (where they settled) in Kerry Patch and went to a German parish called St Matthews where they all inter-married (like mine did).
Alas, Kurt Vonnegut had it right after all. Think. It's not all that oblique.
Apparently it's a very hip word now. I wonder how long it will last?
When I was a kid growing up in St Louis there were 'hip' words that have long-since lost their hipness. Like:
1) Cock - It wasn't your 'member' then. It meant that you were 'cool' and maybe 'good looking'.
2) Fruit - It didn't refer to homosexuals. It just meant you were a nerd.
3) Chuck - It wasn't a guy named 'Charles' nickname. It was a derogatory term that black kids used for white kids.
4) Gay - It was a pretty normal lyric in songs to imply that one was happy.
5) Black Guy or Black Girl - It was a suicidal statement used if you were stupid enough to want to get cut by a sharp instrument wielded by an African American.
6) Negro - It was a term of endearment to be used to describe folks of color.
7) Hoosier - Still a St Louis colloquialism that the rest of the world thinks of as people from Indiana. We here, still think of them as neighbors with pick-up trucks parked in front of their homes.
8) The Tonight Show - It was on every evening for HOURS starring Steve Allen and then, mostly, Jack Parr.
9) The Hill - It was called Dago Hill then and so did those that lived there.
10) Dogtown - No Irishmen ever lived there until about 20 years ago when they decided to name it this. Prior to that, ALL of the Irish from St Louis were from North St Louis (where they settled) in Kerry Patch and went to a German parish called St Matthews where they all inter-married (like mine did).
Alas, Kurt Vonnegut had it right after all. Think. It's not all that oblique.
(To quote from "the Quiet Man": "Her red hair was no lie.")
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