_long-dick_

[hw gray]

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

Ah, Jon, Jon, my only point was to demonstrate that I had consulted the
Bible, instead of merely going off semi-penised with a claim even more
unfounded than necessary, and not to point out a supposed "deficiency" in
it. You have no idea how often prior consultation of the HDAS has prevented
me from wasting even more of the list's time than I do already! I meant no
disrespect, Godfather!

Book fukkin amazin!

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

And rightly so, IMO, though I realize that a scholarly work can't be edited
so as to exclude information merely because that information is lame, in
the compiler's opinion. I haven't come across that one, before. With any
luck, I won't come across it, again. ;-)


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 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
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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.
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