jill-farted ? ?

[Dennis R. Preston]

Surely a misundertanding of "jillflirted." Look under "gillflirted"
in DARE. It's clearly from 'jill' (=female), indicating vaginal
injury, but the general sense of "messed up" is well-established.
Used it myself in my youth. Don;t say it no more, specially up here
in Michigan, cause folk look at me funny (well, funnier).

dInIs


>1996 Truman Smith The Wrong Stuff (rpt. Norman: U. of Okla. Press, 2002) 28:
>Somebody before us had recognized the problem and had attempted to
>solve it with some jury-rigged, jill-farted extension levers that
>stuck up out of the control console like four random sticks jammed
>into a puddle of mud.
>
>Jill-farted ? ?  "Misbegotten" ? ?  Google offers nothing.
>
>Presumably this comes one way or another from "jill-flirted."
>
>Smith, born in 1923, grew up near Ponca City, Okla.
>
>JL
>
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Dennis R. Preston
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