The word was coined by Essex shipping merchants in the early fourteen hundreds.
It is said to mean "She Who likes Banana Hammocks" and scholars believe it refers to the numerous weekend journeys that Essex girls made on these ships to North Dublin in search of scantily clad Irishmen whose pubic region invariably matched the girls' long crimson locks.
It is said to mean "She Who likes Banana Hammocks" and scholars believe it refers to the numerous weekend journeys that Essex girls made on these ships to North Dublin in search of scantily clad Irishmen whose pubic region invariably matched the girls' long crimson locks.
by Irish Lads October 27, 2011