taint

[neil]

on 7/4/05 5:27 pm, Jonathan Lighter at wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM wrote:

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> Is the word actually in use in the UK ?
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> neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK> wrote:
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> on 7/4/05 5:09 am, Harrold Wilson Gray at wilson.gray at RCN.COM wrote:
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>>>> In the UK, the male equivalent of 'taint' is 'barse' - it
>>>> runs from the Balls to the ARSE.
>>>>
>>>> --Neil Crawford
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>>> The US male equiv that I've heard is the "dickstring".
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>> When I was a kid in St. Louis, I used to hear the brothers say stuff
>> like, "Man, that pussy was so fine that it made me pop my dick string!"
>> When I asked around to find out what a dick string was, nobody could
>> tell me, nor could anyone tell me how a brother would know when his
>> dick string had popped or whether the popping of it was painful. I
>> guess that the phrase was merely a fossil in black St. Louis by the
>> '40's. I know "taint" only as a consequence of reading uh-literature.
>> I've never heard it spoken.
>>
>> The spelling of "dick string" as two words is merely a whim on my part.
>>
>> -Wilson Gray
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>>> I don't have a
>>> good definition for it.
>>>
>>> This discussion reminds me of the boast: "My dick is as long as a cat's
>>> tail. At least, it is if you measure it the same way -- from the
>>> asshole to the tip."
>>>
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> Dick string to me is the fraenum of the penis - that strip of skin attaching
> the foreskin to the shaft - which can get torn.
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> --Neil Crawford
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I'm possibly aware of it from Roger's profanisaurus.

See also
http://webcontent.harpercollins.com/text/excerpts/pdf/0732276810.pdf
page 4

--Neil Crawford