Spears

[Wilson Gray]

Come on, Jon! Give me some slack! I been done quit playing with your
ass. You the best.

For dInIs: Hmm. As it happens, I don't know "Your ass!" as a short
form of "That's your ass!" I know the latter only in its full form,
usually as the conclusion of a threat or of the description of a bad
move that's going to leave someone in a world of hurt, such as:

Fuck with my old lady, man, and that's your ass! Now, I done told you!

Say what?! You done went and messed with Wavill's ['weivElz] old lady,
anyway?! After he done told you not to?! Damn, man! That's your ASS!!!

-Wilson

On 6/29/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> "Your ass!" is in HDAS.
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>   JL "The Po-8."
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> Dennis Preston <preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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> Wilson,
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> For me, exclamatory "Your ass" is a short form of "That's your ass,"
> said in disbelief or to oppose an action proposed or claim made by
> another. It's not a clipped form of "Stick it up your ass" (which,
> for me at least, "Up yours" is). Do you claim that the BE "Your ass"
> you know is different? In my ball playing days, during trash talking,
> claims about what one was going to do were often met with "Your ass"
> or the full form "That's you ass." "Stick it up your ass" would not
> have worked there. (Course "Ima stick that ball up you ass and then
> jump shoot the sumbitch right over you, you, ball, and all" would be
> good, but now I'm gettin fancy.)
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> dInIs
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> >Spears has "Up yours!" as a clip of "Stick it up your ass!" He lacks
> >"Your ass!", the BE equivalent. However, he does have "Your brown!,"
> >with which I am totally unfamiliar. (I do not wish to imply by this
> >that Spears claims that this latter is a black expression. He does
> >not.)
> >
> >Spears distinguishes between "yin-yang" = anus and "ying-yang" =
> >penis. I've heard only "ying-yang" = anus.
> >
> >-Wilson
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> >All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> >come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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