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Lizzie slang.|ˈlɪzɪ|
Also lizzie.
[Abbrev. of the female Christian name Elizabeth.]
1. A lesbian. Also, an effeminate young man; also lizzie boy.
1905Dialect Notes III. 87 Lizzie (boy), an effeminate young man. 1912N. L. McClung Black Creek Stopping-House xi. 98 She's married to a no-good Englishman, a real lizzie-boy. 1949A. Wilson Wrong Set 98, I wish you wouldn't talk to those Lizzies. 1966J. B. Priestley Salt is Leaving vi. 75 She has a Lizzie crush on me. 1970J. Symons Man who lost his Wife i. x. 70 You'd never have thought I was a lizzie, would you? And butch at that.
2. A motor car, esp. an early model of a ‘Ford’. Also Tin Lizzie.
1913‘B. L. Standish’ The Desert (Advt. on rear cover), So, when you get tired of rolling around in your Lady Lizzie..hie yourself to the nearest news dealer. 1915Chicago Herald 2 Nov. 4/2 You're right about the guy who is able to make a tin lizzie out of the cans they tie to him. 1922Blackw. Mag. Jan. 37/2 We then prepared to start for home; but ‘Lizzie’..refused..to think of starting. Ibid. Feb. 253/1 An extra bad pothole put Lizzie's back axle out of action. 1949D. M. Davin Roads from Home 233 The pace they drove their old tin lizzies. 1956J. Tickell Moon Squadron 39 These special duty ‘Lizzies’ had to be stripped of all guns, armour and wireless equipment—except radio telephones—in order to allow room for the passengers.
3. (See quot.)
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 145 Lizzie, a big gun: also its shell. A term originating at the Dardanelles and suggested by the firing of the big fifteen-inch guns of H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth.
4. Lisbon wine.
1934M. Ellison Sparks beneath Ashes 182 She drinks ‘Lizzie’ and methylated spirit. 1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid v. 48 A glass of cheap Lisbon red wine, lizzie they called it. |