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Percy boy
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en slang derogatory en Percy a male person regarded as unmanly or weak; a sissy.
en 1957 S[idney] J[oseph] Perelman Cloudland Revisited: Vintage Swine The Road to Miltown: Or, Under the Spreading Atrophy A Touchstone Book 1st Touchstone paperback New York, N.Y. Simon and Schuster 1971 88 https://archive.org/details/roadtomiltownoru0000sjpe/page/88/mode/1up 978-0-671-21117-2 He never palliated his villainy, never helped old ladies across the street to show that he was a sweet kid au fond or prated about his Oedipus complex like the Percy boys who portray heavies today.