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[Dennis R. Preston]

>Us southerners who use cock = pussy are amazed at the "uneducated"
>suggestion. I suppose y'all educated speakers write "pussy" in
>y'all's books?

dInIs



>Following D. Robertson and L. Horn:
>
>"Nooky":
>
>Thorne's slang dictionary gives (under "nookie") the US "noogie" =
>"kiss"/"hug", from "nug". I don't find this elsewhere, and I don't
>recognize it from my experience.
>
>In the 1960's, IIRC, in my experience (MI), the question "Did you get any X
>[on your date last night]?" might include X = "pussy" (less commonly "ass",
>"poontang", etc.), which would be very specific, or it might include X =
>"nooky"/"action"/[none], which would be a little ambiguous, permitting an
>answer like "Well, I got SOME, but [didn't go all the way, etc.]".
>
>The use of "nooky" as a specific anatomical term is completely new to me.
>Certainly in "She was wearing a short skirt and I could see all the way up
>to her X", I would get the idea with X = "nooky" or any of 10,000 other
>words, but if I encountered (out of context) "She was in an accident and
>had some injury to her nooky" I wouldn't have had any idea (until now) what
>part was involved (neck? knuckle? noggin?). What are others' impressions?
>
>"Cock" = "pussy":
>
>I heard this occasionally in the 1960's (MI), = both "vagina" and
>"women"/"sex". This did not strike me as 'black' or 'white' or 'southern',
>but it seemed 'uneducated' -- not something which would appear in a book.
>There were a lot of people of southern origin in Detroit, etc., of course.
>IIRC, those who used "cock" = "vagina" would not use "cock" = "penis"
>("dick" was available for this).
>
>This "cock" = "pussy" (= "women"/"sex") appears once in Vance Randolph's
>"Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales".
>
>"Twitchet" = "c*nt":
>
>This is a cute one which is used many times in Randolph's book: apparently
>it's common in the Ozarks. I've never heard it myself.
>
>-- Doug Wilson

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