_Hardleg_, UD 2006:

[Wilson Gray]

"A person, usually male, that is always talking about sex."


Saint Louis ca. 1946-

A person, always male. I.e., _hardleg_ was the equivalent of _guy,
cat, bloke, stud, dude_ or any other word for a random male, except
that it was restricted in scope of reference to "The person spoken
of," as the grammatical third person was defined, when I was in the
fourth grade.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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