taint

[Jonathan Lighter]

Google reveals a number of "dick(-)string" exx.  It seems to mean essentially "ability to have or maintain an erection; (hence) potency; penis."

One or two posters use it as a personal insult.

JL

"Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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The only context I can put it in is the anecdote in which I first heard
it.

"My friend had surgery -- he got an inch of his dickstring cut out.
That may not seem like much, but when you look at all the screwing he
gets over ten years, he's being shorted a whole lot of tail."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Lighter
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:40 AM
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> Subject: Re: taint
>

> I recall "dickstring" from the '60s, but didn't know what it
> meant then either.
>
> JL

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