billy-go-fister

[Scot LaFaive]

Perhaps it's just me, but isn't there a more sexual reading here? At least
within this small citation.

Scot LaFaive


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>"A hard blow with the fist." Esp. to the abdomen? I believe this obsolete
>term is in HDAS but I've seen it rarely:
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>   1863 _Hooley's Oper House Songster_ (N.Y.: Dick & FitzGerald) 62: One
>Billy-go-fister I gave,/ Which caused her to grunt and to grin agin.
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>   Now what rhymes with "grin agin"?...
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>   JL
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