[Ads-l] _piece_ interdating; _it_ interdating; _jaw_ "cheek," pl. "face"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ca1890? _The Stag Party_ (N.p., n.d.) 219: She was an arrant whore and
> had her heart set on a piece from Joseph.
>

On today's TV, women quite often speak of getting a "piece" from a man. I
can't get ready for that, though I now concede that "Mary fucked John" is
no longer nonsense and is as semantically interpretable as "John fucked
Mary" is.


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-Wilson
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