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Thread #72300   Message #1243941
Posted By: John MacKenzie
10-Aug-04 - 07:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: Behan's plays and Nancyboys
Subject: RE: BS: Behan's plays and Nancyboys
I think a Jennywillocks is a term for a hemaphrodite, anyway that's how I understand it. A nancy boy is an effeminite man, but not necessarily a homosexual one. The words in use for homosexual men when I was a lad were poof, and queer, along with the ruder ones like 'brown hatter' and 'shirt lifter'. As for lesbians, I never even knew they existed until I was well into my teens. Oh what a sheltered life!
Giok