I'm a product of my era, Martin. You know how it is. In my careless youth we hadda lotta names for females: dame, broad, ankle, chippy, bim, twist, tomato, skirt, sister, jane, girlie, chick, dolly. It went on and on.

Some of then words were sorta impolite and some weren't, but it depended on the situation. You hadda be there.

We had words for bad girls too. A "pro skirt" was a prostitute. A "worker" was a gal who takes a guy for his money (like sayin' "she's a real worker"). A moll was a gangster's girlfriend, most people still know that one. If she had "round heels" then she was a gal of easy virtue...or you could say "she skates around a lot" and it meant the same thing.

A looker or a tomatoe or a chickadee or a doll was a real good-lookin' dame.

Then you gotta work in the simian patios (or Ape-English, as it's called by some) and that's a whole other field.

Chongo