poon-tang (was Re: [ADS-L] your most sought word or phrase origins?

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS files have no further U.S. exx. of "snooey," but this reminds me of another mystery word.

  Laurence Stallings & Maxwell Anderson's play "What Price Glory?" (1924) refers at one point to a "Santo Domingo smoongy."  It seems to mean a drinking dive or brothel.  This is the only ex. I know of.

  The play, of course, is about U.S. Marines (like Stallings) in France in WWI.

  In a vaguely similar vein (and I believe I mentioned this long ago) there is "shambo," meaning Japanese, used occasionally by Marines in WWII.

  Any thoughts?

  JL
Jonathon Green <slang at ABECEDARY.NET> wrote:
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Stephen Goranson wrote:
> O. Lost 377 has
> A fellow's got to have a little snooey, hasn't he? snooey--sic. That's a new
> one to me.
>
>
Me too. But I do have records of:

_smoey_, (Aus) the vagina, and thus _have a bit of smooey_, (Aus.) to
have sexual intercourse

for both of which citations exist from 1950. In both cases the first
cite comes from a prison glossary, published in 1950, but collected in
the late 19309s/1940s. _Smooey_ appears to relate to _smooch_.

JG

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