_long-dick_

[Jonathan Lighter]

Ah, Wilson, Wilson, it isn't in HDAS *solely* because I had only one
citation.

I almost included it anyway, but feared I would be accused of gratuitous
lexicopornology.

The word appeared in an undergraduate collection called "Folklore of the
United States Marine Corps," compiled by Don Higginbotham at Indiana
University just around 1962

I recall this because in the days before the Net, people had to travel to
far distant libraries in order to research certain subjects.

I also remember it because the phrase that Higginbotham recorded from vox
populi was the then moderately striking "I may not can long-dick you but I
can sure fancy-fuck you."  (Today I assume it's an ordinary form of
self-introduction to an unattached person.) (Old-timey me! I almost said
"unattached female.")

To "fancy-fuck" didn't make the cut either.

Hmmmmm....sounds like an early ex. of the to "random-fire" and to
"barefoot-run" verboconstructophenomenon.

JL



On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:09 AM, hw gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> While I was awash in idle thought, the verb, "to long-dick" popped into my
> head. I first heard this used by the "big boys" (boys a couple of years
> older and/or a couple of grades higher than my boys and I were. I've been
> assuming that this use of "big boys" is universal, but perhaps it's not.
> Youneverknow) probably around The End of The War;
>
> "I wasn't just getting some pussy! I was steady *long*-dickin'!" "Soon as
> she dropped her drawers, I was long-dickin' my ass off.!" "I whaled a
> *while*, y'all, long-dickin' all night long!"
>
> I don't know whether anyone else has been on this situation, but everybody
> but me seemed to know what "long-dicking" was. So, I didn't want to square
> off/lame out by asking what it was. I thought that, with the passage of
> time, its meaning would become clear. That has not happened. It's not in
> HDAS. It's in Google and in the UD. The definitions in the latter are just
> random bullshit, crap that I would have made up, if someone had put a gun
> to my head and ordered, "Define it or die!" There's even one that claims
> that it means to pick up chicks. Google has stuff like "... 'long-dicking,'
> as the black men say ..."
>
> My conclusion is that it's just a standard brag that the boyz N the 'hood
> have been using since at least The War. Like "I popped my dick-string!",
> it's tossed into stories real or imagined about all the pussy that the bruz
> be getting, just to add color. It has no meaning.
>
> Heard on Springer:
>
> He: "Why you wanna put me down"?
> She: " 'Cause you steady downing me!"
>
> I don't know where the couple was - _couple_ is a Singular in my dialect -
> from, but the use of _put me down_ as "break up with me" and of _downing
> me_ as "putting me down" matches the StL BE of my forlorn youth.
> --
> -Wilson
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