DAME

Definitions

(Abbreviation) Design Award for Marine Equipment

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(Abbreviation) Diamond Awards for Media Excellence

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(Abbreviation) Distributions Ambiances Magnétiques Etc.

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1. Originally, the lady or mistress of a household.

2. Later derived to mean a mistress, a home wrecker, a wifes chief adversary.

3. In America, during Prohibition, it meant a sexy, large-breasted woman.

4. A woman.
Etymology: From the Latin domina, meaning lady or mistress.

Quotes:

(1) Matt Nolan (James Cagney) in Taxi! (1932): ' I wouldn't go for that dame if she was the last woman on earth... and I'd just got out of the navy.'

(2) Rudy Adams (Jean Harlow) to Gypsy (Dorothy Burgess) in Hold Your Man (1933): ' You know, you wouldn't be a bad looking dame... if it wasn't for your face.'

(3) Peter Warne (Clark Gable) to Ellie (Claudette Colbert) who asked: ' What are you thinking about? ' in It Happened One Night (1934): ' I was just wondering what makes dames like you so dizzy.'

(4) Cleo Borden (Mae West) staging an opera in Goin' to Town (1935): 'I'm gonna sing Delilah. I've got a lot of respect for that dame. There's one lady barber that made good.'

(5) Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) to Det. Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) in Laura (1944):
-- Waldo: ' Did you ever know a woman who wasn't a doll or a dame? '
-- Mark: ' Yes, one, but she kept walking me past furniture windows to look at the parlor suites.'

(6) Eddie O'Brien (Gene Kelly) in Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949): ' If she's a dame, she wants romance.'

(7) Allan (Woody Allen) and an imaginary Bogey (voice by Jerry Lacy) in Play It Again, Sam (1972):
-- Allan: ' What's the matter with me? Why can't I be cool? What's the secret? '
-- Bogey: ' There's no secret, kid. Dames are simple. I never met one that didn't understand a slap on the mouth or a slug from a.45.'

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(Abbreviation) Dallas Association of Minority Engineers

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(Abbreviation) Distributions Ambiances Magntiques Etc.

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(Abbreviation) Dark Avenger Mutation Engine

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(Noun) gentlewoman