New "lumpkin," "girney"

[Mark Mandel]

My first thought on seeing a post on "lumpkin" was

    "... White-socks my little lad, and old Fatty Lumpkin"

from The Lord of the Rings. Fatty Lumpkin is Tom Bombadil's horse. OED
Online defines it as

    dial.    A clumsy, blundering person.

Very far from the sexual sense, but both clearly related to "lump". "-kin"
is a diminutive suffix, of which the OED says in part

    The suffix has only a limited use in English. It appears to occur first
in some familiar forms of personal (chiefly male) names, which were either
adoptions or imitations of diminutive forms current in Flanders and Holland,
where such forms appear already in the 10th c.

This is clearly its origin in the term of endearment for a child.

m a m

On Nov 21, 2007 10:22 AM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> 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
> _____________________________________________________________
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >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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