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More sexual slang
(Warning: high sexual content.) Continuing my series of postings on sexual practices and slang terms for them, I turn today to cum play of various kinds, in particular snowballing and gokkun...
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SRS: the music video
Now out on YouTube, the Steam Room Stories music video: (#1) Let’s go relax In the steam room, Get back and hang with all the bros Full of dude, bro, etc., plus towel play and four-part harmony. About...
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‘male anus viewed as a sexual organ’
Yes, there are words — compound nouns — specifically for this meaning, but unless you’re into gay porn, you might not be familiar with man pussy, boy pussy, man cunt, boy cunt, man hole, or boy hole....
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be toast
From Gail Collins’s NYT op-ed column on the 18th, “The Cheney in Waiting”: So what do you think Wyoming wants? Somebody younger? [Liz] Cheney is 46, and apparently planning on suggesting — in the most...
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Groovin’ on the Glocken
Today’s Zippy has Zerbina totally in the groove: A series of slangy panels, culminating in an air glockenspiel (a percussion counterpart of the air guitar, quite possibly a simulation of playing an...
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on the fritz
A while back, when Ned Deily was visiting me, my iTunes produced an album of Joshua Bell playing Fritz Kreisler violin music, and Ned joked about my computer being on the fritz — and we both wondered...
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clean someone’s clock
In today’s Pearls Before Swine, Pig continues to struggle with idioms: Michael Quinion was on the case back in 2007. Both clean ‘thrash’ and clock ‘face’ are involved. From World Wide Words on 6/9/07:...
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Porn prosody
Another installment of material on the (gay) porn register, following up on this posting, where I looked at some lexical features, saying about man pussy, boy pussy, man cunt, boy cunt, man hole, [and]...
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cherry
Some time ago on Facebook, several posters ended up chatting about the vocabulary for talking about a gay man’s anal virginity. The term cherry plays a central role in this vocabulary domain — taken...
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kick-ass news
From Ben Zimmer, two instances of ass-avoidance in the news. First, from the New York Times, a story about GoDaddy shifting its advertising strategy, “GoDaddy Steps Away From the Jiggle” by Stuart...
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sledge
From David Nash on Google+, this ad (from Australia, I assume): (meaning, ‘in the native language of the country where the games will be held, namely Brazil’ — that is, in Brazilian Portuguese). The...
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Watch your words
Two recent news stories on word use, one from a South London school and one from Malaysia. Slang in school. Passed on by Dave Sayers on VAR-L, the variationists’ mailing list: “ ’Like’, ‘innit’ and...
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amaze
It starts with tlhe clipping amaze for amazing and then goes on to the playful extension amazeballs (or amaze balls). Then both of these can be modified by the slang clipping totes (for totally). And...
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hash
An recent exchange on Facebook (about Gertrude Stein) led to musings on the drug noun hash, which at least historically is a shortening of hashish. One participant noted that these days you don’t see a...
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hoe
A Roz Chast cartoon: Generational differences. Slang. An inadvertent pun. (Original lead from Jonathan Lighter on ADS-L. This image via Ben Zimmer.)
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Pig fails again
Today’s Pearls Before Swine: Once agan, Pig falls foul of the Comic Book Censor. This time, it’s over the expression flip s.o. the bird, understood literally (as Pig intends) or as a reference to a...
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Slang change
Yesterday Mark Liberman posted on this Doonesbury cartoon: Rich in material. The main thing I want to note (as Mark did) is a sense development in the slang verb rock, from an older sense, around at...
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bitchtits
(The title provides a warning for the sensitive.) On the 11th on Facebook, Greg Parkinson commented on steroid-induced gynecomastia, with this image: Tom Kirkland followed up with: What surprises me...
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wicked, insane, crazy
From Damien Hall, a pointer to this Questionable Content cartoon (by Jeph Jacques): (#1) Wicked here doesn’t attribute literal wickedness; instead, it serves as a highly positive intensifier,...
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Commit to the bit
Today’s Zits: There’s a lot of fun in there — I’m fond of Michisota, in particular, and the idea that Pierce’s fake ID has him as female — but here I’m looking at the rhyming slang idiom commit to...
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