cupping

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> the word has a certain pungency
>

not to mention a certain connotation or intimation of lubricity in certain
contexts - cf., e.g. AmsterdamAfterDark.com - which has caused me to WAG it
as related to "lekken, lecken, lick, lecher."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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