When did women first begin to be called in slang "chicks" and why?

TabbyTom

Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang dates the usage from the 1920s onwards. There’s a quotation in the Oxford English Dictionary dated 1927 from Sinclair Lewis’s “Elmer Gantry”: “He didn’t want to marry this brainless little fluffy chick.” Partridge’s Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English says that the word reached Britain from the USA about 1940. Nov 19 05, 5:55 PM

Priscilla9

In a theory from my own little foolish head, I believe women were comparable to birds because of their quietness and and flighty mannerisms (of older times). Alas, have I ever made sense? Nov 20 05, 6:56 PM

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