Dialect

[telophase]

Someone on AskMeFi is asking about names for popular/vapid/fashion-obsessed girls from your youth, and the time and location of such term.

I couldn't believe nobody had posted "bowhead" until I did so, but from subsequent replies. it seems to have been primarily a Southern and Texas thing.

Comments

[strigine.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhahahaha I had not thought of that in ages! But yes, we used that word in Austin, when I was in middle school.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

I am now wondering if my subculture was unusually boring, because I don't remember a name for them beyond "the popular girls."

[arinye.livejournal.com]

I always thought of them as either 'preps' or 'bippies'.

Neither was a term of endearment in my late-90s/early-00's outcast mind.

[chomiji]

Valley Girls, or airheads.

(The Valley Girls thing was funny, because we were in Maryland ... .)

It's interesting to me that so many places called them preps or preppies, because to us, preppies came in both male and female varieties. And they were the kids who went to the private schools, instead of going to our famously excellent public schools.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Interesting. It never occurred to me, but we didn't have a word for it where I was. Mainly because there weren't any there. Not a one.