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- From: anita@devvax.mincom.oz.au (Anita Graham)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Is a bimbo the modern name for hussy?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.133455.6724@devvax.mincom.oz.au>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 03:34:55 GMT
- References: <JMC.92Dec18145313@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec21.171142.4541@u.washington.edu> <1992Dec22.215850.379@cactus.org> <BzqD92.In7@ns1.nodak.edu>
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- In article <BzqD92.In7@ns1.nodak.edu>, hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry) writes:
- >
- > On the rare occasion that I feel the urge to refer to someone as the
- > male version of a bimbo, I usually say "bimba". On the even rarer
- > occasion I might otherwise have gotten the urge to refer to a female
- > as a bimbo, someone else, usually another character beat me to it.
- > I don't know any non-fictional bimbos or bimbas.
- >
- Read a P.G. Wodehouse book over Christmas I noted a young lady referring to
- a young man as a bimbo. I think the book may have been Spring Fever - it
- featured the Cobbold family. I can't get any closer than that as I left the
- book at Mum and Dad's house.
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- Anita Graham
- anita@mincom.oz.au
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