"diva": extended to men

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Jun 14 14:30:13 UTC 2005


At 4:00 AM -0700 6/14/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>On _Fox & Friends_ this a.m., Kirin Chetry asked country singer
>Aaron Tippin's accompanist,
>
>"Is he a diva behind the scenes?"
>
Not too surprising, given how long "prima donna" has been.  Of
course, the locus classicus for *that* is the reference to "the
pre-Madonna Jose Canseco"...

L



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