"rattle" = have sexual intercourse with, 2001

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/22/2011 02:55 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>_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)

Of course it's the act I'm remembering, from my excursions in London
accompanying William Byrd.  :-)

Joel

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