"Cock"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Miss Wilkins' Cock" starting on p.36 of the _Fanny Hill's Bang-Up Reciter_
employs the same pun except that here the putative (and I use the term
advisedly) referent is a water faucet.

P. 39 has "fanny" in what is presumably the British sense.

I'm led to believe that anybody with few hundred idle clams (that's "idle"
clams) to dispose of should find this imminent publication of great cultural
and lexicographical value:

http://www.pickeringchatto.com/major_works/bawdy_songbooks_of_the_romantic_period
JL
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Not to encourage you two, but CNN described self-disgraced Rep. Christopher
> Lee (who sent a "flirty" picture of his shirtless self to some woman at
> Craig's List), as a once "up and rising" young Republican.
>
> I find 166,000 Raw Googlits for "an up and rising [X]," which strikes me as
> a lot.
>
> Are people becoming afraid to say "up and coming"? (Though it still gets 10
> million hits.)
>
> I ask because I was soberly told some years ago, in some perfectly innocent
> context, not to "use that expression." Naturally I assumed that the woman
> was a lunatic.
>
> If the hero of the song had really just found the old maid's rooster, I
> doubt that he'd put it together with his on the wedding night. Well, of
> course, anything's possible, but this is an um-song, and the naughty
> interpretation makes better sense. I'd be more dubious without the
> existence
> of Doten's indubitable 1867 ex.
>
> BTW, I lacked the wherewithal to consult all 79 volumes for HDAS
> quotes. Take it away, Larry!
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> JL
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> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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> > At 8:36 PM -0500 2/10/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >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"?;-)
> >
> > cf. intrans. "come off", trans. "bring off".  But while "Robin
> > brought Dana off" is perfectly acceptable (modulo the slight archaism
> > Wilson notes), "Robin brought Dana" cannot be interpreted as the
> > causative counterpart of "Dana came".  Funny language we've got here.
> >
> >
> > LH
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