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RARA-AVIS: Harpies
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 LoLehmann@aol.com wrote:
> In the '50s, Carl Barks wrote a Disney Comic called The Golden Fleece, where
> Scrooge & family went to Greece and met all sorts of mythological creatures.
> Among them were harpies, but a Disney editor renamed them "larkies" because
> harpies was a slang word for prostitute.
>
> Nobody on the Disney Comics mailing list recalls having heard the name harpy
> used in such a sense. What about you ? Kathy ?
That was a new term to me, too (except in the sense of a nagging woman),
until I checked the 1948 _American Thesaurus of Slang_, which lists
"harpie" as a synonym for "slut."
Katherine Harper
Department of English
Bowling Green State University
Visit the W.R. Burnett Page at http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~kharper/
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