tolo(s)

[Wendalyn Nichols]

Tolo singular, tolos plural, (plural being necessary because yes, we too
had more than one a year--about once a quarter--in my Seattle high
school--1970s). I only knew "Sadie Hawkins" because my mother grew up in
Montana, so she didn't know the word "tolo."
Wendalyn Nichols

At 05:33 PM 1/5/04 -0800, you wrote:
>Joan:
>
>Heck.  They seemed to have tolos several times a year at the (Seattle) high
>school I attended. . . . .that was back in the early 60's.
>Anne G
> >
> > I heard "tolo" (not "tolos") for a turnabout (Sadie Hawkins) dance in
>about
> > 1962 from someone who had come to California from Seattle.
> >
> > At 11:57 PM 12/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > >---------------------- Information from the mail header
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> > >Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > >Poster:       Sam Clements <sclements at NEO.RR.COM>
> > >Subject:      tolo(s)
> >
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> > >
> > >In a discussion over at Straightdope,  a poster offered that he/she knew
>the
> > >term "tolos" to mean a Sadie Hawkins Dance.
> > >
> > >Where does this one come from and when?  (tolos)
> > >
> > >Another poster, who is a rather good Googler, found a cite which
>indicated
> > >current Northwest US usage of the term.