@ Asker 16:11 Dec 7, 2020
From your explanation: "Angie was looking forward to an explanation of his nickname.", I think she was hoping he had been nicknamed for the size of...ahem... a certain part of his anatomy! Back in the UK, certainly, when I was at an all-boys school, that particular nickname (or 'Knobby') was generally given to chaps whose downstairs development appeared somehwta precocious. So if she was disappointed that there was no explanation given, she had to fall back on her other, less enticing, assumption... The only thing is, I can't think what that meaning could be, as you say: Sheila's idea of 'freshman' seems slightly at odds with the notion of being / having been a professional footballer... |