Wallopies

01/25/89 08:23:06
From: LAURA LANSBERRY
To : MARIE TOVAAS
Subj: Poll!

Sounds great ... The Chalice and the BLade .. will have to see if I can find a
copy! We are much more than men with tits, but are men anything more than
females with penises?

#139 01/25/89 17:59:17
From: HOWARD JIANG
Subj: Tits

I wonder where that word came from. Does anyone know where?

#147 01/26/89 01:44:42
From: MARIE TOVAAS
To : HOWARD JIANG
Subj: Tits

Probably a variant on teats, the term for the mammalary apparatus on some of
the other mammals... or from the name of the inventor of the modern "bra"...

#151 01/26/89 11:44:41
From: JIM LIPPARD
To : HOWARD JIANG
Subj: Tits

According to _Slang and Euphemism_ by Richard Spears, "tit" was British slang
for a horse (a filly) from the mid 1500s to 1800s (with no negative
connotations). It then came to mean a young woman, during the same period of
time. Then, it came to mean a prostitute in the late 1500s. In the 1700s,
"titty" came to mean nipple. Then, from the 1800s to present, it became U.S.
slang for the breast.

#165 01/27/89 20:11:07
From: JOE QUELLEN
To : ROBERT ANTON ANDREAS ALEX
Subj: tits

tit n. Lit., teat or nipple; fig. used in the plural to = noticeable nipples
on shapely, protruding female breasts, as of a sweater girl. 1947: " 'Well,'
said Munroe. 'Thay girl ought to go to Hollywood.' 'She couldn't make it out
there,' blushed Wilson. 'No tits.'" C. Willingham, END AS A MAN, 93.
Universally used. Applied to both animal teats and human teats. "Teat" is now
no longer ever used in referring to women; women have tits or nipples, animals
have teats.

- Dictionary of American Slang, Crowell Company, 1960.

#167 01/28/89 04:18:27
From: LEGO MANIAC
Subj: breasts

SYNONYMS: Apple dumpling shop, apples, appurtenances, baby pillows, baby's
public house, bags, balcony, balloons, bazongas, bazooms, bazoongies, beausom,
beauts, begonias, berks, big brown eyes, blubbers, bobbers, boobies, boobs,
bosiasm, bosoms, boulders, breastworks, breests, Bristol cities, Bristols,
bubbies, bubbles, buffers, bulbs, bumpers, bumps, bust, butter-bags,
butter-boxes, cabman's rests, cans, cat and kitties, caat heads, cats and
kitties, Charlies, charms, che-chees, chest and bedding, chestnuts, chubbies,
coker-nuts, cream-jugs, daairies, diddies, dinners, droopers, dugs, dumplings,
cumpling-shop, east and west, eyes, feeding-bottles, figure, flip-flaps,
fore-buttocks, fried eggs, front, gazongas, globes, goonas, grapefruits,
growths, hand-warmers, haangers, headlights, hemispheres, hog jaws, honeydew
melons, hooters, jelly-on-springs, Jersey cities, jugs, kettledrums, knockers,
lemons, Lewis and Witties, lollos, love-bubbles, love tips, lungs, Mae West,
mammets, Manghester city, Manchesters, maracas, marshmallows, meat,
meat-market, melons, milk-bottles, milk-shop, milk-walk, milky-way, mosob,
mountains, mount of lilies, muffins, murphies, nature's fonts, nick-nacks,
ninnies, ninny jugs, norgies, nubbies, nuggets, oranges, other parts, pair,
panters, pnatry shelves, paps, peaches, pellets, playground, poonts, prize
faggots, pumps, racks, sacks, snorbs, superdroopers, swingers, teacups, the
person, thousand pities, threepenny bits, tonsils, top, top ballocks, top
ones, toraloorals, towns and cities, treasure, cont.
...trey bits, twin loveliness, twins, udder, upper-deck, upper-works, veiled
twins, voos, wallopies, warts, watermelons.

- From Richard A. Spears's _Slang and Euphemism_

(for some reason they fail to include "tits".)