Padded and trussed, his face smeared with Vaseline, a rubber mouthpiece between his teeth, he stood waiting while two squat men punched and grappled in the ring.
It is an excerpt from the novel Fat City by Leonard Gardner.
I can't understand to what these words refer. I guess the "padded" implies that his gloves or his head-guard is stuffed with cotton wool, and the word "trussed" implies that they wrap his hands for boxing.
Or can we say, he made up this word "trussed" to avoid...
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It is an excerpt from the novel Fat City by Leonard Gardner.
I can't understand to what these words refer. I guess the "padded" implies that his gloves or his head-guard is stuffed with cotton wool, and the word "trussed" implies that they wrap his hands for boxing.
Or can we say, he made up this word "trussed" to avoid...
Read more