"knock" vt. = 'copulate with' 1702 interdates OED

[Jonathan Lighter]

SWAG: "knock boots" was inspired by "knock off some booty."

Like I say, SWAG.  Your results may differ.

JL

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Interesting! I wonder how _knock boots_ came about. For that matter, I
> wonder how the _knock it out_ of my lost youth came about.
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> -Wilson
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> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > "knock" v. = 'copulate with' 1702; interdates OED2 sense 2.d 1604--1785.
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> > Province and Court Records of Maine,
> > Vol. IV:
> > The Court Records of York County, Maine,
> > Province of Massachusetts Bay,
> > November, 1692 -- January, 1710--11.
> > Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1958.
> >
> > 5 January 1702/03.
> >
> > p. 288.
> > The sd Sarah tiny [sic] ... doth testifie & Saye that ... John Ame
> > [sic] came ... & Swore by God that I had promised him he Should nok
> > mee ly with mee & withall he took hold of mee & Threw mee Down &
> > pulled up my Close Shewed all my Nakedness & Run into the house after Mee
> ...
> >
> > p. 289.
> > Elizabeth Tyler ... doth Testifie & Seay that She ... Saw John Amee &
> > Sarah Tinny ... & both of them run up in the Chamber Shee first & him
> > after but he Staid little while there but come down againe ... & Shee
> > after him ... but when She [Tinny] Come downe Shee [Tyler] hard
> > [heard] the sd Sarah Tiny [sic] Call him Indian dog & bee for that he
> > Said Sarah you promised me to let me ly with you & now I will ly ...
> > [ellipsis in original] with you & Shee run behind my back & he Puled
> > her out and said he would kik and nok you & the sd Sarah Tinny asked
> > sd Mee where he would nok her with a hatchet or hamer but he sd he
> > would nok her with his Prick ...
> >
> > [The free-wheeling and free-writing colonial district of Maine.]
> >
> > Joel
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