"Stallion": minor correction of Spears

[Scot LaFaive]

I don't have the definition here, but from what I remember from looking at
it about a month or two ago there was only mention of it referring to an
attractive female (not necessarily plus sized) and it is mainly within Black
English. When antedating it, I did find the cite below.

12/11/2006
"Also Serena know she is a stallion!! Lookin damn good in that tight dress.
Get em!!"
(http://concreteloop.com/?p=8741&cp=all)


>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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>Subject: Re: "Stallion": minor correction of Spears
>Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:47:32 -0500
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>Can you supply a cite, Scott? My copy of DARE ends at Sk-.
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>-Wilson
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>On 2/18/07, Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > I know that DARE also has "stallion" in this sense, though I'm pretty
>sure
> > it also doesn't denote a female of "plus size."
> >
> > Scot
> >
> >
> > >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > >Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > >Subject: "Stallion": minor correction of Spears
> > >Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:02:22 -0500
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> > >Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > >Subject:      "Stallion": minor correction of Spears
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> > >Spears, in _Slang and Euphemism_, defines "stallion" as used in BE
> > >slang as "a beautiful and sexually attractive black woman." This is
> > >correct, as far as it goes, but a stallion has to be *plus-sized.*
> > >Think Chaka Khan or Queen Latifah. E.g., Halle Berry is a fox, but she
> > >ain't no stallion. It's not necessary that the woman be black. Any
> > >"fine" or "fine and healthy" (both of these  terms are missing from
> > >S&E) B[ig]B[eautiful]W[oman] is a stallion. Cf. the late, great Anna
> > >Nicole Smith. (MTV Cribs is on in the background and Ice-T, by the
> > >sheerest coincidence, has just revealed that a headshot of Britney
> > >Spears hangs over his bed.)
> > >
> > >I have no idea why "stallion" is used in this meaning instead of
> > >"mare," as would be expected. I've pondered this question for dekkids.
> > >Iss jess one uh them black thangs that even black folk don't
> > >understand, I reckon.
> > >
> > >FWIW, Russian slang uses _kobyla_ "mare" in a similar sense.
> > >
> > >-Wilson
> > >-
> > >All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> > >come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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