slang from Punk Magazine

[Dennis R. Preston]

Interesting that just as perhaps "doggin" is nonsense to rhyme with
"floggin," "flong" may be nonsense (unless it is otherwise attested)
to rhyme with the well-known "dong" in "flong your dong."

dInIs

>If indeed it is flogging, one possible longer form is "flogging the bishop"
>according to data one of my grad students collected this semester.
>
>How about "flagging" = 'raising the flag on the pole'?  Similar sort of
>motion, although a bit of a stretched metaphor.
>
>Jim Stalker
>
>
>Wilson Gray writes:
>
>>On Dec 10, 2004, at 8:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>
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>>>Shouldn't that be "flog"?
>>>
>>>JL
>>
>>Yeah. What he said. It has an extended form, "floggin' the doggin."
>>AFAIK, "doggin" is just a nonsense word used to make the rhyme.
>>
>>Q. What did the butcher do when his shop caught fire?
>>A. He grabbed his meat and beat it.
>>
>>-Wilson Gray
>>
>>>
>>>"Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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>>>>From the page images in the online archive of Punk Magazine.
>>>
>>>"jimmyhead"
>>>_Punk_ 3/76, p.3/1
>>>"Do they let jimmyheads like that walk around the streets in New York?"
>>>
>>>"flag" to masturbate
>>>_Punk_ 3/76, p.3/1
>>>"Just as I'm writing this letter O'Neil's probably in some back alley
>>>flagging it with a _National Geographic_ opened up on the ground next
>>>to
>>>him."
>>>
>>>"clunker"
>>>_Punk_ 7/76, p.??
>>>"If you don't print this letter or pic, I'll cut your clunkers off!"
>>>
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>
>
>
>James C. Stalker
>Department of English
>Michigan State University


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