Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black) a young white woman.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 209: Miss Lillian and Amy have taken their place alongside Miss Ann as expressions for a white female.

(US black) a white woman; esp. when considered to be hostile or patronizing to blacks.

1926		Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 280: Look at Buddie wid Miss Annie ... Dat ain’ Miss Annie, dat’s kinkout.
1928		R. Fisher Walls Of Jericho 303: miss anne Non-specific designation of ‘swell’ whites [...] ‘His mamma’s got a fur coat just like Miss Anne’s, too.’.
1929		T. Gordon Born to Be (1975) 236: Miss Ann and Mister Eddie: Emancipated blue-bloods.
1934		C.S. Johnson Shadow of the Plantation 83: You be workin’ and she goin’ ’round dressed up like “Miss Ann” when you go naked’.
1942		Z.N. Hurston ‘Story in Harlem Sl.’ in Novels and Stories (1995) 1004: I had to leave from down south ’cause Miss Anne used to worry me so bad to go with me.
1949		Dan Burley ‘Back Door Stuff’ 29 Jan. [synd. col.] Those who slipped off from Ol’ Miss Anne’s kitchen when they were supposed to be [...] hanging up next week’s washing.
1967		C. Cooper Jr Farm (1968) 177: I heard all this head action going down in the next stall. I didn’t dream it was Miss Ann and her sweet girl taking off.
1972		Milner & Milner Black Players 175: After a while Efam showed up in a fine horse-drawn carriage with the master and Miss Anne.
1975		J. Roe The Same Old Grind 99: ‘How come you feel called to insult me, Miss Ann?’ [...] ‘Ah’ll spread yoh cheeks, Annie, and read yoh pink asshole!’.
1979		‘Iceberg Slim’ Airtight Willie and Me 48: I got an older sister that thinks she’s white [...] She was high and mighty Miss Anne.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines xxi: Their tongue-in-cheek cynicism [...] finds the proverbial Miss Ann replaced by Miss Lillian and Amy.
1980		J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 138: These yallas try to play Miss Anne.

1. a woman who overdresses.

1966–70

in DARE.

2. usu. mocking, an elite ‘social leader’ of a community.

1966–70

in DARE.

(US black) an attractive, well-built, conspicuous young woman.

1957

H. Simmons Corner Boy 27: ‘Hey, Jake, who’s Miss Big Stockings the boys tell me you done latched onto?’ [...] ‘Built like a brick ...’ The guys cut off Jake’s comment with laughter.

the vagina.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Brown Madam or Miss Brown. The Monosyllable.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 85: Crot, m. The female pudendum; ‘the brown madam’.
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 185: The elliptic mood is still sometimes found, however, in the advertisements of those on the game, where they delicately refer to Miss Brown, Madam Brown, Itching Jenny, Mary Lane, Madge Howlett and Miss Laycock in shop-window come-ons.

see John Bull n.¹

a female lout.

1742

J. Winstanley ‘Miss Betty’s Singing Bird’ in A. Carpenter Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 271: And when they come there, play the Fool, / The ramping Hoyden or Miss Bumpkin.

(drugs) a quantity of drugs carried on one’s person.

1967

Maurer & Vogel Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction (3rd edn).

see cubba n.

(drugs) morphine.

1938		D. Maurer ‘Lang. of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in Lang. Und. (1981) 106/1: miss emma. Morphine.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 145: Miss Emma. Morphine.
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.
1969		R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970).
1971		E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972).
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 15: Miss Emma — Morphine.
2006		F.X. Toole Pound for Pound 60: He used Dilaudid if he was low on morphine, but he preferred ‘Miss Emma.’.

an addiction to morphine.

1959

J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.

(US) form of address aimed at one who is considered to be overly self-opinionated.

1972		(con. 1950s) D. Goines Whoreson 172: You can start getting ready for the track too, Miss Fine.
1974		D. Goines Daddy Cool (1997) 23: And another thing, Miss Fine [...] you had better make sure that motherfuckin’ door hits you in the crack of your ass before twelve o’clock at night.
1979		‘Iceberg Slim’ Airtight Willie and Me 105: Hi, Miss Fine, didn’t expect you until tonight.

the hand, in the context of masturbation.

1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 742: mid-C.20.
2000		Sex-Lexis 🌐.

1. an unpleasant woman.

1981

J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl. (2nd edn).

2. (US gay) a ‘feminine’ male homosexual.

1978

Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 118: Elsewhere Aylwin lists a few more ‘Vulgarities’: [...] bitch (Miss Fitch, the opposite of masculine butch in camp homosexual slang).

(camp gay) a user of amphetamines or Benzedrine.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 82: flash queen (fr narc sl flash = jolt brought about by drugs) gay drug user. Syn: Miss Flash.

see green n.² (3)

(orig. US gay) a greeting to a fellow homosexual man.

1968

N. Heard Howard Street 115: Oh, Miss It, you’re just too much. Just look at his gorgeous hair.

(W.I.) an effeminate man.

1958

cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).

(W.I.) a male gossip.

1958

cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).

the vagina; thus anthropomorphized in 18C as a prostitute.

1706		[T. Betterton] Amorous Widow [Dramatis Personæ] Lady Laycock. An Amorous old Widow that courts every one she can for Marriage .
1721		N. Ward Northern Cuckold in Misc. IV 26: [A] Blowze just tumbl’d by her Lover, Sweating as much as Gammar Laycock, just rais’d by Ralph from Mow or Haycock.
1725		View of London and Westminster 16: Lady Laycock presents him her Compliments.
1756		‘Capt. Samuel Cock’ Voyage to Lethe (2nd edn) [title page] printed for Mrs. Laycock, at Mr. Clevercock’s in Smock Alley.
1765		Kitty’s Attalantis 52: Received of John Goodcock, esq; the sum of five guineas, for my maidenhead; which is more than any of the Badcocks in the parish wou’d give. nancy laycock.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Miss Laycock. The Monosyllable.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[1831		Satirist (London) 4 Dec. 277/3: he Society of Vice, we understand, have written to Lord Valletort not to consummate his approaching nuptials, at Laycock Abbey—but to [...] banish the name as tending to corrupt the morals of the age, and to offend the delicate senses of those who hear it pronounced].
c.1880		‘US Army Sl. 1870s–1880s’ [compiled by R. Bunting, San Diego CA, 2001] Miss Laycock A vagina.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 185: The elliptic mood is still sometimes found, however, in the advertisements of those on the game, where they delicately refer to Miss Brown, Madam Brown, Itching Jenny, Mary Lane, Madge Howlett and Miss Laycock in shop-window come-ons.

(US) a lazy individual.

1975

J. Roe The Same Old Grind 4: ‘Jonquil! [...] Double-bump at the end of the phrase, Miss Lazy’.

(US black) a white girl or woman of any age, but usu. an older woman.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines xxi: Their tongue-in-cheek cynicism [...] finds the proverbial Miss Ann replaced by Miss Lillian and Amy.

see lily law n.

1. a woman who overdresses.

1994

in DARE file.

2. usu. mocking, an élite ‘social leader’ of a community.

1995

in DARE file.

(US black) generic for a white girl or woman of any age, but usu. an older woman.

1972

Milner & Milner Black Players 139: Your old lady, she may have a square job cleaning Miss Lucy’s kitchen, but she’s holdin’ policiers, bettin’ on the numbers.

(US black gay) the police.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 125: the police [...] Miss Man (black gay sl.).

see separate entry.

see under molly n.¹

(US gay) a Mexican homosexual.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 29: Mexican homosexual [...] Miss Morales (‘Just cause Miss Morales paints her nails is no sign that she doesn’t know how to point her johnson’).

(drugs) morphine.

1967		Maurer & Vogel Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction.
1977		S.N. Pradhan Drug Abuse.
2003		Sl. Synonyms for Drugs on Ajax.org 🌐 morphine miss morph.

see separate entry.

(US) a very demanding, ‘high maintenance’ young woman.

1955

B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] [S]he was the original Miss Need-It: always needing stockings, perfume, even a suitcase.

see Miss Thing n.

(camp gay) an informer.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.

the hand, in context of masturbation.

1975		S. Selvon Moses Ascending (1984) 24: I know that if I didn’t play it cool, I would end up in a corner playing with Miss Palmer.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 117/2: Miss Palmer n. a homosexual act whereby one man stimulates his partner’s penis with his hand, simulating masturbation.

a cigarette.

1998

R. Puxley Fresh Rabbit.

(US Asian) venereal disease.

1868

S.P. Boyer diary 13 June in Barnes Naval Surgeon (1963) 54: I am afraid that he ‘will carry the pitcher once too often to the well.’ If so, why, he’ll be compelled to weep for his Japanese lady friend and have occasion to remember her for some time. For a victim of ‘Miss Placed Confidence’ in Japan is the worst kind of victim. [Ibid.] 12 Aug. 89: Lanced a bubo for Mr. Heaton, right groin — another victim of ‘Miss Placed Confidence’.

see prissy-pants n.

(N.Z. prison) second-rate, adulterated amphetamine.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 117/2: Miss Quickly n. speed in a ‘cut’ state, i.e. broken down with an agent such as glucose to make it stretch further, of poorer quality than pure speed.

see Mr Right n.

see roundheels n. (2)

see Miss Thing n.

see separate entry.

see Miss Lizzie Tish

a woman with large breasts.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Van Neck. Miss or Mrs Van Neck, a Woman with large Breasts, a Bushel Bubby.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

(camp gay) a notably thin person.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.