New "lumpkin," "girney"

[Charles Doyle]

A graduate student tells me that "lumpkin," as the term denotes a particular sex act, has a synonym "blumpkin"--which also enjoys several UrbanDictionary attestations. The UrbanLexicographers can be very precise in their illustrations: "That New Jersey hooker gave me a blumpkin and a scorching case of genital warts for $3.62."

Regarding "lumpkin" as a term of endearment for a child: Could it represent a blend--perhaps of "lambkin" and "pumpkin" (or "love" and "pumpkin")?

--Charlie
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>Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:27:56 -0500
>From: Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>

>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.
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>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.
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>--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.

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>>From: Dennis Preston <preston at msu.edu>
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>>Yep. Former Gov. of Georgia.
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>>dInIs
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>>>Poster:       ronbutters at AOL.COM
>>>Subject:      Re: New "lumpkin," "girney"

>>>Isn't Lumpkin an important family name in the American South? My memory is that there is a Lumpkin Ave in Athens, GA.

>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Dennis Preston <preston at MSU.EDU>
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>>>And the Urban Dictionary has a rather different
>>>sense of "lumkin" from any of these.
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>>>dInIs

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