Antedating? of "shot his wad" 1896

[Dennis R. Preston]

Except in wine; I assure you plonque tastes just as shitty as plonk.

dInIs



>And 16th C. English as well. See OED.
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>I prefer Ben Jonson's spelling, "punque."  Adds class.
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>JL
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>Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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>On Sep 19, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Mullins, Bill wrote:
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>>>  P.S. If anyone can cite the first use of the term in a
>>>  sexual = connotation, I would be grateful.
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>>  If online searchable indices/databases of pornography ever appear, a
>>  whole
>>  lot of terms will be antedated.
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>Quite so. For example, from reading My Secret Life by "Walter,"
>published in parts 1888-1894, I learned that "punk," which is an
>insulting term for a male homosexual in BE, was used as a term for a
>female prostitute in Victorian England.
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>-Wilson Gray
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