Oh, fun. Maybe you can ask the Dialect Society one for me.
In our family when I was growing up, when a person was being too much of a slowpoke (especially but not exclusively when playing cards), one got called "Mildred." As in "come on, Mildred!" I don't know if this is peculiar to our family or not, but it would be interesting to find out if it isn't. (there is no one amongst my relatives named Mildred, to the best of my knowledge)
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Date: 2014-02-09 10:03 pm (UTC)In our family when I was growing up, when a person was being too much of a slowpoke (especially but not exclusively when playing cards), one got called "Mildred." As in "come on, Mildred!" I don't know if this is peculiar to our family or not, but it would be interesting to find out if it isn't. (there is no one amongst my relatives named Mildred, to the best of my knowledge)