[Ads-l] _pussy-good_ "very good, as good as one could possibly want, the best"

[Jonathan Lighter]

1957-60 Jere Peacock _Valhalla_ [rpt. N.Y.: Dell, 1962] 256: "That's a
pussy good idea!" Stack said.

Peacock (1936-79) was from Spokane. His (once shocking) novel is based on
the four years he spent in the USMC in the 1950s.

(HDAS dates _Valhalla_ to 1961, but it was published on Jan. 9 of that
year, and the author began work on it while still in the Marines.)

JL

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> This was common in Saint Louis BE back in the ’50’s. If it was used by Babe
> Ruth, however, it's clearly older than the ’50’s.
>
> Massy's Game - Page 57
> https://books.google.com/books?id=FoORAAAAIAAJ
> Jack Olsen - 1976 - ‎Snippet view
> "How do you feel about the next season, Mr. Ruth?"
> "Pussy good."
> "What do you think of the Yankees’ chances?"
> "Oh, pussy good, pussy good."
> "How’s the pitching this time around, Babe?"
> "Pussy good. Yes, sir, pussy good!"
> "I went back to my office with nothing in my notepad except 'pussy good.' "
>
> In the UD from ’03.
> --
> -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.
> -Mark Twain
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