Re: Peach
- From: Alec McKenzie <find@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:48:08 +0000
Oaken Coates <Oaken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:11:40 GMT, Tony Cooper
> <tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >I reading a book with a plot set in the 50s. One character uses the
> >word "peach" to mean "tell on me" in several instances. For example:
> >"I knew you wouldn't peach on me".
> >
> >I've never come across this usage before.
>
> I understand hard-boiled and pulp fiction writers (20s, 30s ...) were
> not above inventing their own "tough guy"slang from time to time. Some
> say Hammett invented "gunsel" for gunman, for example. However I don't
> know if "to peach" belongs in this "fictional use" category or not.
I doubt that it was invented; I have seen it too often for that.
I've never heard it spoken, though.
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Alec McKenzie
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