poundage and others

[Mullins, Bill]

poundage  --   OED: 6.b. A person's weight, esp. that which is regarded as
excess.
   1930 WODEHOUSE Very Good, Jeeves! iv. 93 Women who have anything to do
with opera..always appear to run to surplus poundage

"Glimpses of the Game" Wm. A. Phelon, _Baseball Magazine_, June, 1915, No.
2, p. 39/1
"Added weight undoubtedly had much to do with Jack Johnson's defeat; added
weight has driven many a good ballplayer out of the game  and yet, in many
cases, extra bulk, a large increase in poundage, has helped to keep a player
in the business, and even to bring back a discard from the minors!"


hippo (slang for a fat person; not in OED)
"Glimpses of the Game" Wm. A. Phelon, _Baseball Magazine_, June, 1915, No.
2, p. 38/2
"When he became a hippo, and learned how to bend the extra bulk into the
force of every blow he struck, he came back to fast company and became a
whale, a terror to all pitchers."

busher (OED has bush leaguer from 1906)
"The New Recruit," _Baseball Magazine_, May, 1916, No. 1, p. 71/1
"Well, there ain't no sense in lettin' a busher get away with everything is
there?"
p. 71/2
"Not bad, y'unnerstand, but just a little scratch, to show that the big
league is too rough for a busher."

blinged -- swear word, not in OED
"The New Recruit," _Baseball Magazine_, May, 1916, No. 1, p. 71/2
"Not while I'm tryin' to find out just where that blinged plate is located."