"Cock"

[Wilson Gray]

In that context, I certainly get the impression that _cock_ WRT the
woman refers literally to a male hen and not to the pudenda feminina.

BTW, what up with that "bang-up" from 1835-36? A pun, in that context?
Or mere coincidence? I'm not aware of any hidden erotic feeling WRT
"bang-up." But I didn't see any erotic in "fetching," either, until
after I'd read "Walter's" My Secret Life, wherein _fetch_ is used to
mean, as it literally does, IMO, "cause to come," hence making the use
of _fetch_ a very slick, deep pun, when the "other" meaning of _come_
is considered.

FWIW, um-surfing reveals both a respelling of _come_ as _cum_, and a
reanalysis of it as a separate word altogether from _come_, with
_cummed, cummed_ as PST,  PST PART.

Aaarrrggghhh!

But then, the ordinary pornographer probably has no familiarity with
the very likely now-obsolete phrase, "come to climax" and its
mirror-image, "bring to climax." Or should that be, "take to
climax"?;-)
(One my wife's pet peeves is the loss of the distinction between
_bring_ and _take_.) I once read somewhere or other that, in Jamaican,
people say, "Bring him go" and "Take him come," in some now-forgotten
context or other.

--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain



On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1835-36 _Fanny Hill's Bang-Up Reciter_ (Facsimile rpt. London: P. R. Wells,
> 1965) 16:
> In wedlock's bands they soon were joined,/ In hymen's holy fetters,/ He
> found her cock, and his one too/ And he put them both together.
>
> A PDF is visible here:
> http://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1830s/1836--1965_fanny_hills_bang-up_reciter_friskey_songster_(PB)/index.htm
>
> The whole silly song ("a rummy chaunt") turns on an old maid's loss of her
> favorite rooster.
> The hero appears and makes things better than before. So conceivably, and
> despite the verbal inspiration behind the song, this use of the metaphor has
> nothing to do with American Southern usage.
>
> Conceivably.
>

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