slang from Punk Magazine

[Jonathan Lighter]

I suspect "doggin" was originally "dog."  The longer phrase is in "From Here to Eternity" (the book, not the movie....)

JL



Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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On Dec 10, 2004, at 8:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> Shouldn't that be "flog"?
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> 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

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> From the page images in the online archive of Punk Magazine.
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> "jimmyhead"
> _Punk_ 3/76, p.3/1
> "Do they let jimmyheads like that walk around the streets in New York?"
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> "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."
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> "clunker"
> _Punk_ 7/76, p.??
> "If you don't print this letter or pic, I'll cut your clunkers off!"
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