Just caught the flick on TCM.
"Jake" I get, but I don't even know how to spell beezock. Beazock? Bezock?
bezark/beezark, n. : from the Old Norse 'baresark' or 'berserker'; one who is sufficiently incensed in battle to remove his upper garment (the sark or bearnie) and run amuck. Hence any lunatical or foolish fellow, ne'er-do-well, nincompoop or ragamuffin.
I had to do a lot of googling for that one, especially since google now sucks and is bent on destroying itself.
“Bezark” is obsolete underworld lingo for “woman” and equates with “pansy” when applied to men. Listen carefully and you’ll hear the word — sometimes pronounced “bee-zock” — in films such as: The Mayor of Hell (1933), Me and my Gal (1932), and The Torrid Zone (1940).
"You want to save humanity but it's people that you just can't stand". - John Lennon
I did a considerable amount of googling myself, and "pansy" makes sense in the context of the movie. Also, in Me and my Gal Tracy refers to Joan Bennett by saying to her, "You're a pretty tough beezock. Why don't you park that gum."
However, I also came up with lines like from a play from the 1920's "Exceedingly Small": I'll bust that fat sap on his beezock." That leads me to believe that she might be referring to Tracy by a part of his anatomy.
"Bezok" in the Urban dictionary- A fat,sloppy, useless loser!!
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