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feathers
noun- a bed US, 1899
- What are you like in the feathers? Are you real great in the feathers, Movement? Do you do everything? — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 229, 1954
- You been three in the feathers before, ain’ you? — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 191, 1961
- Oh there may be girls who get a hundred to spend a whole night with a John–dinner and the theater and eight hours in the feathers. — John Warren Wells, Tricks of the Trade, p. 13, 1970
- body hair, especially fine hair or pubic hair US
- “Is it true all them white women shows theyself mother naked?” the old bum grinned, exposing a couple of dung-colored snaggleteeth. “Mother naked!” he croaked. “They ain’t even that. They done shaved off the feathers.” — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 92, 1966
- “My, my,” the Spook murmured, “not a feather on him. Some jocker’s due to score.” — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 35, 1967
- — Inez Cardozo-Freeman, The Joint, p. 496, 1984
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- sleep US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 58, 1977
- in darts and Bingo (also House and Tombola), the number thirty-three UK
Also variant “fevvers”. - — Jack McClintock, The Book of Darts, p. 159, 1977
- [A]n allusion to the Cockneyism “firty-free fahsand fevvers on a frush’s froat” — Beale, 1984
▶ make the feathers fly
to cause uproar, to disturb the status quo US, 1825 |