"fuckery"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 07:59:24PM -0400, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> At 7/7/2009 03:20 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>
>> (For what it's worth, _fuckery_ 'a brothel' goes back at least
>> to 1902.)
>
> Google Books shows it's in Farmer and Henley's "Slang and its
> Analogues ..." of 1893, Vol. 3 (Fla. to Hyps.), page 222, col. 2,
> under "growler" / French Synonyms":
>
> un foutoir ambulant (= a fuckery on wheels)

Ah, it is in there? Damn, I missed it; I found it in one of
the later volumes only :-(

Thanks!

Jesse

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