"rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/22/2011 01:06 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
>It shows up in George Macdonald Fraser's "Flashman" novels quite a bit,

Found (probably with the desired meaning!) at least in "Flash for
Freedom!" (1972), e.g. page 453 in an Everyman's Library collection
(2010).  Seemingly not in "Flashman" (1969).

>along with "rogering".
>They were written in the 20th century, set in the 19th.

Does that mean we should find "rattle" in 19th-century books or slang
dictionaries?  However, my personal memory of  "rogering" is from the
18th century.

Joel


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>>The 2001 movie "The Banger Sisters" regularly uses the verb "rattle"
>>= "have sexual intercourse with" (although not often does it use this
>>euphemism) and the corresponding noun "rattle".
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>>Not in the OED,  nor Wentworth & Flexner (1967) or Chapman (1995),
>>the only slang books on my shelf.
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>>In Urbandictionary, with this meaning.  HDAS?
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>>Only mentioned because in my innocence I had not heard this before,
>>and the OED could not enlighten me.  Not easy to find Googling.
>>
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