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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsEver hear term 'round heels? Mom, b 1913, said it was used for girls who were 'easy'
'Easy' also an old term, I think
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,570 posts)Cartoonist
(7,309 posts)In the context of the story, I assumed it meant she didn't stand on her feet all day.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Maeve
(42,269 posts)Falling backwards implying having sex, as in the Nurse's joke in Romeo & Juliet
For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,
She could have run and waddled all about;
For even the day before, she broke her brow:
And then my husband--God be with his soul!
A' was a merry man--took up the child:
'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?
Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;
Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,
The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'
Act I, scene III
We had a teacher who explained why that was one of the 'dirty bits'
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)And easily.
Remember when women were not supposed to enjoy sex, but to endure it for the sake of their husbands and to produce children?
braddy
(3,585 posts)and girlfriends, they just didn't want to make the mistake of trying to build a life and raise a family with a round heel girl.
Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)Collimator
(1,639 posts)and British detective series.
Also remember the expression, "no better than she should be." That one means that a given person behaves correctly in circumstances that can be observed by the community. But when the public eye is not present, the person makes no attempt at behaving honorably or virtuously.
Other expressions I have enjoyed, "Mutton dressed as lamb" or conversely, "Lamb dressed as mutton."
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)FakeNoose
(32,552 posts)I did read "round heels" in books but I never heard anyone actually use that term in a conversation.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Someone wrote an autobiography with that title relatively recently (~2005 or so, I think) about sexual adventures in mid-life.