Slang in Court

[Barnhart]

DMLance wrote:

(b) she caught him with a "hoochin mamma" the next night.  Another
request for a
definition of a technical term -- "a woman who is dirty and don't care
about theyself at
all."

hoochin' mamma....

An interesting formal and semantic variation of _hoochie mama_ (DC Vol.
11.3), defined as "a black woman, especially one who is flirtatious,
enthusiastic, or who freely expresses her joy in African-American
culture."

Regards,
David Barnhart

David K. Barnhart, Editor
The Barnhart Dictionary Companion [quarterly]
barnhart at highlands.com
www.highlands.com/Lexik

"Necessity obliges us to neologize."
Thomas Jefferson-August 16, 1813