"Brain" as Slang for "Oral Sex": fun with metonymy

Grant Barrett gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG
Sat Nov 6 09:06:56 UTC 2004


Two more data points: "hanging brains" is to dangle one's scrotum
through the fly of one's pants and "to brain" someone is to hang one's
scrotum next to or on the face or head of a sleeping person, usually so
a picture can be taken.

Grant Barrett

On Nov 5, 2004, at 19:16, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

> On Nov 5, 2004, at 9:16 AM, davemarc provided a "brain" website.
>
> interesting development, suitable for energizing undergraduate classes
> on semantics, language use, and language change.



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