OutIL More on JUNK 'private parts'

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 26 18:54:54 UTC 2006


In BE, I've heard "junk (in the trunk)" iused only in reference to the
female arse. There's also the onomatopoetic "badunkadunk," i.e. the
sound made by junk in the trunk when the car hits a bump.
"Badunkadunk" has exactly the same meaning as "junk (in the trunk)."
Cf. the Chappelle Show skit, "The 'I Know Black People' Contest." Real
people participated in the contest, which was won by an Asian-American
liquor-store? / convenience store? clerk. Other participants were a
black "dude from the street," a white professor of African-American
Studies, and a white street cop, IIRC.

-Wilson


On 5/26/06, Grant Barrett <gbarrett at worldnewyork.org> wrote:
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> It's pretty common. I took it back as far as 1996, although I'm sure
> it's older. I found a few uses of it referring to the female
> genitals, too.
>
> http://www.dtww.org/index.php/dictionary/junk/
>
> Grant Barrett
> gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
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> On May 26, 2006, at 09:54, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> > Last night in a conversation, Danny (WM, professional, c 25yo,
> > gay): "His
> > tights were so short that you could see all of his junk--it was
> > pushed right out
> > there" (paraphrase of sentence, but JUNK obviously referred to
> > 'penis+testicles'.
> >
> > Does anyone else use this term in this way?
> >
> > In a message dated 4/29/06 10:04:19 PM, RonButters at aol.com writes:
> >>
> >> In a message dated 4/29/06 11:19:16 AM, kenny at UDel.Edu writes:
> >>
> >> I'd have to look up the reference (which I can't do right now since
> >> I'm in the midst of reorganizing my library and my books are in
> >> chaotic disarray), but I remember Ethan Mordden using the term "junk"
> >> in the relevant sense in at least one of his books.  That would place
> >> the usage in the early 80s (when most of his books were written) or
> >> earlier (the story I'm thinking of was a reminiscence about the 70s)
> >> in New York City.
> >>
> >> Ken
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sorry aol hadn't delivered this to my mailbox yet when I wrote my
> >> previous
> >> posting. It WAS Mordden's book I was thinking of: I've a Feeling
> >> We're Not in
> >> Kansas Anymore: Tales from Gay Manhattan. But I do think that
> >> "junk" referred
> >> to the butt, not the penis. And that Mordden SAID he made it up.
> >>
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