origin of JINER?

[neil]

on 4/4/05 2:43 pm, Jonathan Lighter at wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM wrote:

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> You may be right.  This is new to me.
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> JL
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> neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK> wrote:
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> "There's some fine jiner waiting for us down there after bed check."
> --Tom Wolfe, "I Am Charlotte Simmons', Jonathan Cape, London, 2004, 587
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> I imagine 'jiner' is generic for sexually complaisant females or females as
> sex objects. Is it nonce, or can anyone hazard an origin - possibly a
> respelling of 'gina' ex 'vagina'?
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> --Neil Crawford
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minor correction to citation: that should have read 'fine, fine jiner'

--Neil