muscle Mary
n.— «There is a weird naivety to Michael Barrymore. When he first came out he went out with what is known as a muscle Mary. “But I didn’t know that at the time. We went on holiday to Bangkok and he walked around with his shirt off. You don’t do that, and I was embarrassed. I didn’t know what Old Compton Street was, it wasn’t part of my world.”» —“Fears of a clown” by Chrissy Iley Observer (United Kingdom) Oct. 8, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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Is there such a thing as a “neutral” accent, and if so what does it sound like? And that quirk in the way southern Californians talk about freeways. They’ll say things like take the 405 and get on the 8. Why the definite article...