Buchinger's Boot
Bill Mullins
amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM
Wed Jun 4 01:18:06 UTC 2014
Buchinger’s Boot
Not in OED. An
obscure euphemism for a woman’s vagina.
Matthew Buchinger (1674 – 1740) was a German dwarf with no arms or legs
(his penis was the closest thing he had to a foot, thus the expression). He was also quite the swordsman, having had
four wives, fourteen children (by eight women), and multiple mistresses.
Francis Grose. _A
Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Second Edition._ London: S. Hooper, 1788. Unpaginated. [not in 1st edition of 1785]
“Buckinger’s Boot.
The monosyllable. Matthew
Buckinger was born without hands and legs; notwithstanding which he drew coats
of arms very neatly, and could write the Lord’s Prayer within the compass of a
shilling: he was married to a tall
handsome woman, and traversed the country, shewing himself for money.” ["the monosyllable" = cunt?]
The following passage may allude to the expression, I
believe.
Nov 13 1782 _London Morning Herald and Daily Advertiser_ p 3
col 1
“A gentleman in the boxes observed, that Mrs. Kennedy’s boot
in the new Opera, were of the true Cordovian cut – An Hibernian denied the
premises: “my soul,” says he, but the
boot is true Buckinger cut – This Buckinger, my dear was a fellow who hand
neither hands nor feet.”
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