dojiee

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:00:07 -0400, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:34:22 -0400, George Thompson wrote:

>>Here is a quotation from Mary Lou Williams, Piano-player and
>>arranger/composer from Kansas City, referring to the mid 1930s:
>>"To top all, it was August and hot as a young girl's dojiee."
>>
>>Having a dirty mind -- aren't they a delight? -- I suppose there is
>>some anatomical reference here.  But maybe not.
>>Can there be a connection with the "dogie" of cowboy songs?
>>
>>This is from Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix, Kansas City Jazz: From
>>Ragtime to Bebop -- A History, N. Y., &c.: Oxford U. Pr., 2005, p. 69,
>>quoting an interview with Williams published in Max Jones, Talking
>>Jazz, 1988, p. 184.
>
>The interview originally appeared in Melody Maker, April-June 1954:
>
>http://www.ratical.org/MaryLouWilliams/MMiview1954.html
>
>In that transcription, the word is "doojie", which certainly makes more
>sense than "dojiee".

Also appears as "doojie" in the Max Jones book cited by Driggs and Haddix
(or at least the 2000 revised edition, retitled _Jazz Talking_):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0306809486?v=search-inside&keywords=doojie

Same spelling in _Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton_ by Diane Wood
Middlebrook (1998):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0395957893?v=search-inside&keywords=doojie
http://print.google.com/print?id=f_Gav_BdQFQC&q=doojie


--Ben Zimmer