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pretty-boy|ˈprɪtɪbɔɪ|
Also without hyphen.
[f. pretty a. 4 + boy n.1]
A foppish or effeminate man; a male homosexual. Also used ironically, a ‘tough’, a thug. Also attrib.
1885Daily News 26 Jan. 3/7 The style termed by irreverent mashers the pretty-boy clip, the style sometimes called the upward drag, and the whim which ranges from a delicate fringe to furze-bush proportions, at first amazed and amused the neat Japanese damsels. 1898R. Hughes Lakerim Athletic Club 241 Sawed-Off had sniffed scornfully that lawn-tennis was a game fit for nobody but girls and pretty boys. 1931Amer. Mercury Nov. 353/2 Pretty boys,..the circus bouncers; strong-arm men. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 57 Pretty-boy, an effeminate young man. 1946G. Millar Horned Pigeon ix. 117 A pretty boy with wavy, brown hair flowing glossily over his round head... ‘Who is it?’ ‘The colonnello's bum-boy. A shit.’ 1955M. Allingham Beckoning Lady v. 71 The middle-aged pretty-boy face, complete with protuberant blue eyes and corrugated dark brown hair. 1956‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) xix. 157 Scar tissue hooded his eyes. He owned cauliflower ears and hardly any teeth. His name, of course, was ‘Pretty-Boy Krajak’. 1968M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xi. 111, I walked past pretty-boy... Close up, pretty-boy smelled worse than ever. 1970E. R. Johnson God Keepers (1971) iv. 46 A man named Al Brunning, pretty-boy greaseball. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 98 She was referring to the Beatles record (late-middle period—between pretty-boy rock and bleared occult) which had just come to an end. 1974P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird (1975) xi. 153 You're not cross-eyed..and your ears are pasted on straight. Not any pretty-boy, but probably photogenic. |