Nonsexual lickety-split

[neil]

on 9/8/05 11:57 PM, Mullins, Bill at Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL wrote:

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>> Sexual "spunk," n., appears in the (relatively) recent American
> umliterature;
>> probably the verb does too, but I haven't noted it.

Sexual equality of sorts was intimated in Paris in the '50s [probably an
American author]:

'Rosa too was beginning to moan and drove her fingers into her aching maw
with a frenzy that showed her coming was also near. Then, with a shuddering
groan, her hands slowed between her thighs and with convulsive kicks she too
spunked down her warm thighs.'
- Pearson Groves, 'Juvenile Lead,', Pall Mall Press, Paris, 1957

-- Neil Crawford
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> Lou Grant: You know, you've got spunk!
> Mary Richards: Well, thank you.
> Lou Grant: I HATE spunk!
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>> _ADS-L list member_ : Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh.  He said :
>> "Spunk".