Filthy sugar, p.22
Filthy Sugar, page 22
To buffalo To bully or intimidate
someone:
To bury the hatchet: To forgive and forget
To be dizzy for someone: To have a crush on someone
To act fresh: 1. To come on strong sexually;
2. To speak or act in a sassy or
rude fashion
To grease one’s gums: To gossip
To settle someone’s 1. To get even 2. To silence
hash: someone
To slug someone: To hit someone
To be sore: To be angry
To turn turtle: 1. To change one’s mind
abruptly; 2. To suddenly stop
showing interest in a lover
To swing a hoof: To dance
To work someone: To make sexual advances
Tomato: A very physically attractive
woman
Town Clown: A term for when a cab driver
can only seem to pick up short
distance fares
Tumble: 1. Sexual intercourse; 2. To pay
sexual attention to someone
Underwood Banger:* 1. A writer; 2. A reporter
Wet blanket: 1. A dull, uninteresting person;
2. A person whose melancholic
nature brings down the mood
of those around him
You can’t saw sawdust: What’s done is done; let it go
You said it: I agree!; That’s right!
You sure are regular: You are a good person
Zozzled: Drunk
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to thank Luciana Ricciutelli, Renée Knapp, and everyone at Inanna Publications. Dreams do come true and I should know—I found the publisher of my dreams!
Special thanks to the following writers for your ongoing encouragement and support: Duncan Armstrong, Valentino Assenza, Brenda Clews, Pat Connors, Jeff Cottrill, Lisa de Nikolits, Amanda Earl, Marilyn Goldberg, Cate McKim, Shawn Syms, Patricia Tomlinson, Lizzie Violet, Iris Wilde and Liz Worth.
To Yasmin Aziz, you are truly the greatest friend a girl could ask for and I am blessed to have you in my life. Neil Traynor, thank you for your unconditional love and for believing in me even during the dark times when I didn’t believe in myself. Thanks also to Karen Tiveron for your amazing friendship. A special big thank you to my mother and to the rest of my family (my father, my nephew William, Wendy and my dear Lang Lang).
I would also like to thank and acknowledge the following, without whom Filthy Sugar would not have been possible: my wonderful landlady for providing me with safe and affordable housing (sadly a growing rarity in Toronto) and the Toronto Public Library, in particular the Brentwood branch’s Le@rning Centre, for the research materials and computer access needed to complete the work on my novel.
Photo: Neil Traynor
Heather Babcock has had short fiction published in various literary journals and anthologies including Descant Magazine, Front & Centre Magazine, The Toronto Quarterly, and in the collection GULCHI: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose (2009). Her chapbook, Of Being Underground and Moving Backwards, was published in 2015 in a sold-out limited edition. She is a co-founder of The Redhead Revue reading series and I Got You Babe: An Evening of Music and Poetry. Heather blogs about silent and classic movies at meetmeatthesodafountain.home.blog. Filthy Sugar is her debut novel. She lives and works in Toronto.
Heather Babcock, Filthy Sugar
