groaniest

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Mar 27 23:32:22 UTC 2011


On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> groaniest

At first glance, I read the subject as

"groanies!"

Back in the '50's, _groanies_ was a local(?) slang term for "testes," in StL BE.

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