I was just last evening at a sing-along party where we all gathered to watch the Robert Preston version of The Music Man and sing along. <cheesy grin>

A few lovely new (or old) words struck my fancy. I'm always surprised (you'd think I'd get over it) that things like this are actually in dictionaries:

Canoodling (Marcellus says something along the lines of " . . . there's gonna be some canoodling!")

Merriam-Webster says: Etymology: perhaps from English dialect canoodle, noun, donkey, fool, foolish lover
: PET, FONDLE <lovers canoodling in the park>



Frittering ("yes, your young men'll be frittering!")

Canoodle is not uncommon in UK English, though it's probably rather an old-fashioned term these days. But it is, I feel, infinitely more appealing than some of the more earthily biological expressions in common use amongst the younger generation.

Well, maybe this word isn't all that "special," but I laughed so much when I heard it. One of my colleagues was describing a fellow colleague to me (the latter wears short skirts and very low-cut tops) and called her a "flim-flam floozy." Now that one I hadn't heard, but it sure is funny!

Quote "...One of my colleagues was describing a fellow colleague to me (the latter wears short skirts and very low-cut tops) ..."

A picture in these cases is worth a plethora of words, even such good ones as flim-flam-floozy (didn't the original one have a floy-floy?)

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
Well, maybe this word isn't all that "special," but I laughed so much when I heard it. One of my colleagues was describing a fellow colleague to me (the latter wears short skirts and very low-cut tops) and called her a "flim-flam floozy." Now that one I hadn't heard, but it sure is funny!

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Here's a picture of Flim Flam Floozy (about halfway down). It doesn't match your description, though!

Tinman

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Originally posted by Richard English:
flim-flam-floozy (didn't the original one have a floy-floy?)

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Almost but not quite. It wasn't flim-flam-floozy, but Flat-Foot-Floogie, who possessed the floy floy.

I can't tell you why his floy floy was sometimes a floy doy. This gap of knowledge will trouble me unceasingly.

quote:

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Oh, the flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Floy doy, floy doy, floy doy.

Yeah, yeah yeah, byah, oh, baby!
Yeah, byah, byah, oh, baby!
Yeah, byah, byah, oh, baby!
Yeah, byah, byah!

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Ah, they don't write great lyrics like that anymore!

I bet that floogie has been frittering away his time with canoodling!