"Stinky pinky"

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:23 PM -0400 9/29/04, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>>I lack the smokin reference, but Jesse's "er" referece has been
>>known to me since the early 50s, alongside "stink finger."
>
>dInIs

frequently in the context of "to play stink finger" or, I assume, "to
play stinky pinky" (for the er reference)

>
>>On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:00:09PM -0400, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>  > A woman on today's Springer show used this phrase, which I've never
>>>  heard before. Unfortunately, I missed the context in which the term was
>>>  used. Does anybody know what it means?
>>
>>It really depends on the context, but most likely, it refers either
>>to a kind of marijuana, or the finger as used for, er, insertional
>>sexual purposes.
>>
>>Jesse Sheidlower
>>OED
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