Loogie (1985)

[William Salmon]

>> Oyster sounds familiar, but its use would probably require special
>> circumstances. Urbandictionary gives a beaut for "dockyard oyster",
>> involving British sailors.
>>
> Then there's hawking a prairie oyster.  Takes practice, though.

One would imagine, though I've always heard "mountain oyster" rather
than the prairie variant, as in the "World Championship Rocky Mountain
Oyster Festival" at Throckmorton, Texas.  But this gets off topic.

WS

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