New "lumpkin," "girney"

[Charles Doyle]

Date: Mon 19 Nov 13:15:13 EDT 2007
From: Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> Add To Address Book |
Subject: Re: New "lumpkin"
To: ronbutters at aol.com

UrbanDictionary's first entry for "lumpkin" has a nice dangling particlple, which makes the definition ambiguous: "The act of oral sex performed on a man while defecating." In the several other entries, the approved procedure becomes clear.

Even before the the term was applied to the currently popular (?!) practice, I found the proper name, so prominent here is Georgia, to be comical (I always think of the literary character Tony Lumpkin). But, yes, in honor of the former governor, a major street in Athens is named Lumpkin, and a campus building at UGa is named Lumpkin House. And now there's an upscale Lumpkin Place apartment cluster. And an elegant restaurant named the Lumpkin Cafe.

--Charlie
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>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:14:13 +0000
>From: ronbutters at AOL.COM

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>Also the middle name of the linguist Peter Patrick (?), who is, I think, a descendant of the governor.
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>I could not find LUMKIN on Urban Dictionary.
>Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

>From: Dennis Preston <preston at msu.edu>
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>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:15:34
>To:ronbutters at aol.com
>Subject: Re: New "lumpkin," "girney"
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>Yep. Former Gov. of Georgia.
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>dInIs
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>>Isn't Lumpkin an important family name in the
>>American South? My memory is that there is a
>>Lumpkin Ave in Athens, GA.
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>>From: Dennis Preston <preston at MSU.EDU>
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>>Date:         Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:32:58
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>>And the Urban Dictionary has a rather different
>>sense of "lumkin" from any of these.
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