Skilligimink

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:07 PM -0500 3/10/05, Joanne M. Despres wrote:
>A North (New) Jersey resident of my acquaintance used say
>something like "Skinny bolink."  I found this variant listed in a
>collection of "Brooklynisms" at
>http://www.lampos.com/brooklyn.htm.
>
>Joanne
>
>On 10 Mar 2005, at 11:43, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
>>  "Skinnymalink" was my grandmother's form. She said it frequently.
>>
>  > JL
>>
strange.  Neither my wife (age 61, grew up in Connecticut) nor my
daughter (age 20) have ever heard of any of these variants, but it
was definitely in my parents' vocabulary ("__ is a real
skinnymarink", I can remember my mother saying), NYC, early-mid 50's.
Urban slang?

L