"rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001

[Victor Steinbok]

Give a whole new meaning to "wewease Wogeah" in Meaning of Life...

     VS-)

On 2/22/2011 2:55 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> At 2:31 PM -0500 2/22/11, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>> At 2/22/2011 01:06 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
>> ...
>>> 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
> _ro(d)ger_ is in Farmer&  Henley as both a substantive 'the penis' (<
> 1653, Urquhart's trans. of Rabelais) and a verb "to copulate' (<  1750)
>
> ...
> LH

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