angel-drawers
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[edit]Noun
[edit]angel-drawers (plural angel-drawers)
- (humorous) Affectionate term of address.
- 1969, "It's the Arts" (TV comedy sketch in Monty Python's Flying Circus episode 1)
- HOST: Can I call you "sugar plum"?
ROSS: No.
HOST: "Pussycat"?
ROSS: No!
HOST: "Angel drawers"?
- HOST: Can I call you "sugar plum"?
- 2000, Barbara Marchant, A Young Actor's Scene Book: A Training Tool, page 29:
- RICKY: Don't you worry about my drinking, angel-drawers. I've drunk more beer than you ever saw.
- 2012, Rex Clark, Oliver Lubrich, Transatlantic Echoes: Alexander Von Humboldt in World Literature, page 372:
- We're on the move, Angel-drawers. Every boring mile brings me closer to you.
- 1969, "It's the Arts" (TV comedy sketch in Monty Python's Flying Circus episode 1)
References
[edit]- Tony Thorne (2014) “angel-drawers”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London, […]: Bloomsbury