Saturday, April 25, 2009

The Superlatively Derogatory Colloquial Epithet, Shammy

with thanks to the OED and find-and-replace

You low-down shammies can put a gun in our hands but who is able to take it out?

Make one move, shammy, and I'll blow you away.

Oh, Life's a shammy, Bruce.

So I keep concentrating very hard, helping the pilot fly the 250-passenger shammy.

Eight milk-shakes (why had he bought eight of the shammies?).

Where are the harpoons on this shammy?

He said who put this hole in this shammy's head. Who could the murderer of this poor man be.

Ain't that blackshammy beautiful.

I'm one shammy that don't mind dying.

A prudent shammy like me has an IRA account, some short-term T-bills, etc.

Have I got a shammy of a stunt for you!

The Berkeley quartet opened its set jamming and vamping. From then on it was a shammy....

LA[S] under a personal name or a gang name means ‘Like a shammy’, and it's supposed to suggest to all who read it that the person or the gang is rough and tough.

I could turn and run like a shammy and dodge my way back up the hill to safety.

Squeaky-voiced and foul-fuckin'-mouthed as a shammy.

You a bunch of jive shammies.

Leonard Carlo is so upset, he can't even curse properly ... ‘shammy!’ he says at last.

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