Wednesday, February 27, 2013

prima donna

"1. n. A temperamental player, one who thinks well of himself. 2. v. To assume adulation and  privileged treatment as a right. 'Ty Cobb is making more trouble for the powers that be by prima donning through Georgia with a barnstorm nine playing any team that will meet his aggregation. ... Why should Cobb be the pampered pet?' (San Francisco Bulletin, March 18, 1913; Gerald L. Cohen)."
Paul Dickson, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

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