It's Tuesday, March 31st, 2026 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca, and for some reason that I can't quite explain, or maybe

a different kind of person might start by saying, not for nothing.

I was looking up the etymology of the word bimbo.

I've been very interested in finding out about bimbo's.

Bimbo's first appeared as the name of an alcoholic punch in the 19th century. And then, you know,

from 1900 around, Bimbo's became the names of horses. There was a famous elephant circus and a

gorilla named Bimbo.

In 1919, Damon Runyon of Guys and Dolls fame quoted a boxer calling an opponent a bimbo.

What's a bimbo?

Somebody asked Tiny Maxwell on the assumption that Tiny ought to be familiar with the Philadelphia lingo.

A bimbo, said Tiny.

It's a to two degrees lower than a cuckoo-cudy.

Okay. According to Google Ngram, there was a spike in the use of the word bimbo in the 1920s. And this is the period when the sense of the word seeming to conjure a flusy may have

arisen. My little bimbo down on bamboo aisle was a popular 1920s song.

We also have this song from a little later by the Cowboy crooner Jim Reeves.

Bimbo, bimbo, where you're going to go, be you, oh, bimbo, what you're going to do with you,

Bimbo, bimbo, what you're gonna do, a bimbo, bimbo, does your mommy know

that you're going down the road to see your little girlie-o?

Sometime around the 1920s, the sense that a flapper or vamp might be a bimbo,

May West's sexually aggressive Diamond-Dill little character was called a Bowery Bimbo.

But you know, as I started reading the popular press of the 20s,

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