Used unisexually for a male parrot as well, in Harry Greenbank and Sidney Jones's "Interfering Parrot" (1896): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4MpZowd5sU JL -- "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth." ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org