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Thread #100788 Message #2064412
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
30-May-07 - 06:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'nappy headed hos' what does it mean?
Subject: RE: BS: 'nappy headed hos' what does it mean?
Quote from A. Lomax, "Mister Jelly Roll," 1952. "Light-skinned Downtown shared the bandstand with 'real black and nappy-headed Uptown." Oliver, 1968, "Screening the Blues:" J. Pullum song with the line "Black gal, black gal, what makes your nappy head so hard?"- Re-made, with 'big head,' into "Caldonia," a big hit for Louis Jordan, Woody Herman and many others in WW2 era. Quotes from Oxford English Dictionary.
Earliest mention of 'nappy' in Webster's Collegiate Dictionary- 1928 (source not given).