_Hardleg_, UD 2006:

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wilson's sense is in HDAS, from 1946 [!]. The UD's isn't.


JL

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "A person, usually male, that is always talking about sex."
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> Saint Louis ca. 1946-
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> A person, always male. I.e., _hardleg_ was the equivalent of _guy,
> cat, bloke, stud, dude_ or any other word for a random male, except
> that it was restricted in scope of reference to "The person spoken
> of," as the grammatical third person was defined, when I was in the
> fourth grade.
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