I don't care what you've done, Pinky

lucy-66

"Stick yer minces on that!" Is this language "stilted" and "quaint"?

Get real (as you young people say)! Slang is of its time.

Minces are eyes (rhyming slang from mince pies). "Milky" for cowardly sounds like a Greene coinage. (Perhaps  "windy" didn't get past the censor.) "Lakes" means crazy, rhyming slang again, from Lakes of Killarney=barmy.

(Raymond Chandler admitted to making up much of his gangster slang.)

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lucy-66 4 June 2003

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