英语词汇floozie的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

floozie. “Flat-Foot Floogy with the Floy Floy,” a popular song in 1945, spelled floozie differently, but it meant the same. A floosie, floogy, flugie, or even faloosie is a gaudily dressed, dumb, disrespectable, frequently high-spirited woman, often a prostitute. If the word derives from Flossie, a nickname for Florence, no one has proved it, and the word was first recorded in the form of flugie at the turn of the century. Hollywood’s hays code banned floozie, along with red-hot mamma and other words, but the term got a breath of new life with the song mentioned above, which describes a floozie with what it seems is a kind of venereal disease, the floy floy. This American slang, as a British writer observes, is “picturesque” and should be retained for its “blousy flowery atmosphere” suggesting “good spirits, gaudy flowered dresses, and bad but delightful perfume.”

词汇	floozie
词源	floozie. “Flat-Foot Floogy with the Floy Floy,” a popular song in 1945, spelled floozie differently, but it meant the same. A floosie, floogy, flugie, or even faloosie is a gaudily dressed, dumb, disrespectable, frequently high-spirited woman, often a prostitute. If the word derives from Flossie, a nickname for Florence, no one has proved it, and the word was first recorded in the form of flugie at the turn of the century. Hollywood’s hays code banned floozie, along with red-hot mamma and other words, but the term got a breath of new life with the song mentioned above, which describes a floozie with what it seems is a kind of venereal disease, the floy floy. This American slang, as a British writer observes, is “picturesque” and should be retained for its “blousy flowery atmosphere” suggesting “good spirits, gaudy flowered dresses, and bad but delightful perfume.”
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