Pachangas

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:41 PM, crawford wrote:
>
> Some adumbration here, please:
>
> "Diva Bette Midler roiled male fantasies of large breasts in her show Mud
> Will Be Flung Tonight: "Tits, bazooms, medicine balls, pachangas, my world ‹
> welcome to it! ... I don't have to be well-informed, just well endowed."
> ~ Joseph Boskin, 'Rebellious Laughter: People's Humor in American Culture',
> Syracuse University Press, 1997, 172
[...]
> So, just how do 'pachangas' equate to breasts?

By resemblance to "bazongas" and its variants, I'm guessing?

--bgz

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