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Scarlet Pansy 302: Marjorie would not have given a tinker’s damn to sit there.at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
Scarlet Pansy 302: Marjorie would not have given a tinker’s damn to sit there. Scarlet Pansy 147: Fairies with their sailors or marines or rough trade; tante’s (aunties) with their good looking clerks or chorus molls. [Ibid.] 219: ‘Young?’ gurgled an old aunty.at auntie, n.2
Scarlet Pansy 150: Here one heard fruit, banana, meat, fish, tomato, cream, dozens of everyday words used with double meaning.at banana, n.
Scarlet Pansy 333: The others present pointed her out as une belle, the same expression which is used so much in Baltimore and New Orleans.at belle, n.
Scarlet Pansy 269: The Beaches appeared, dragging their usual gorgeous laces and velvets regally behind them. [Ibid.] 301: La Bull-Mawgan and that damned bitch Elsie Dike, are aboard ship.at bitch, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 256: Leave out all bitch arithmetic.at bitching, adj.
Scarlet Pansy 195: Fay poured out a stiff one for each of the men and suggested bottoms up, and then another and another.at bottoms up!, excl.
Scarlet Pansy 158: The rules of etiquette were completely reversed, so much so that eventually the whole crowd was ‘bounced’.at bounce, v.1
Scarlet Pansy 174: There was an elegant Miss Drexel-Bütsch of Philadelphia; also there were the Brown-Bütsches of New Rochelle (very classy indeed), and a whole Bütsch-Fuchs family in New York.at brown, adj.2
Scarlet Pansy 147: There were bulldikers with their sweeties.at bull-dyker, n.
Scarlet Pansy 137: An anomalous-looking masculine woman, Miss Bull-Mawgan, and her inseperable friend, Elsie Dike.at bull, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 174: There was an elegant Miss Drexel-Bütsch of Philadelphia; also there were the Brown-Bütsches of New Rochelle (very classy indeed), and a whole Bütsch-Fuchs family in New York.at butch, adj.
Scarlet Pansy 150: They burlesqued all life. This they designated ‘camping’ and to ‘camp’ brilliantly fixed one’s social status. [Ibid.] 295: It was well nigh impossible to buy gifts, but they all rose to the occasion, stopping at the all night drugstores, picking up what they could, as Ella expressed to Kitty, ‘more for the camp of the thing than anything else’.at camp, n.2
Scarlet Pansy 150: They burlesqued all life. This they designated ‘camping’ and to ‘camp’ brilliantly fixed one’s social status.at camp, v.2
Scarlet Pansy 178: ‘You tell ’em, dearie,’ commanded Old Aunty Beach-Bütsch in her affected high-pitched campy voice.at campy, adj.
Scarlet Pansy 186: ‘Something gorgeous, simply devastating,’ Percy Chichi called it.at chichi, adj.
Scarlet Pansy 335: Elizabeth Thorndyke [...] nicknamed ‘Clittie’ for obvious reasons, had remained in America.at clitty, n.
Scarlet Pansy 212: The Marine spoke in a high-pitched Southern cracker drawl.at cracker, adj.1
Scarlet Pansy 341: Whoops, Whoops! Whoops, my dear! / Can you tell me if she’s queer? / Would she learn to do the crawl? / Would she go to balls and all? / Would she dance the can-can-can / For her great big strong he-man?at crawl, v.2
Scarlet Pansy 150: Here one heard fruit, banana, meat, fish, tomato, cream, dozens of everyday words used with double meaning.at cream, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 153: By this time, Fay had become addicted to cruising [...] deliberately walking the streets for the purpose of flirtation, and the ultimate culmination of flirtation.at cruising, n.
Scarlet Pansy 137: I have to dress extravagantly and be the village cut-up to get any attention.at cut-up, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 213: He’s dirt!at dirt, n.
A Scarlet Pansy 199: There was trade everywhere. Of course there was always the usual sprinkling of dirt, but the clever ones, with their sharpened sensibilities, their so-called intuition, were almost mind-readers.at dirt, n.
Scarlet Pansy 352: Come on in and dish with me [...] They entered arm in arm, firing questions at each other with the speed of machine guns – ‘Have you heard from dear old Aunty Beach-Bütsch? Where’s Miss Savoy?’.at dish, v.
Scarlet Pansy 167: Where men are men and women are double breasted.at double-breasted (adj.) under double, adj.
Scarlet Pansy 136: Miss Savoy, the notorious impersonator came sailing by, in a grand drag.at drag, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 166: They visited Atlantic City in time to attend the famous Iceman’s Ball, noted far and wide for the fashionable drags displayed. [Ibid.] 186: Fay had decided to be brilliant and go as a queen. She had with her a drag – ‘Something gorgeous, simply devastating,’ Percy Chichi called it.at drag, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 186: The Percival Beach-Bütsches gave a drag the next night under the protection of the people higher up.at drag, n.1
Scarlet Pansy 307: There she had as a child picked up ‘Pennsylvanian dutch’.at Dutch, n.1
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