[Ads-l] Antedating of "blow job"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Aug 1 14:56:18 UTC 2022


OK, or "perform oral sex on" for that matter--the question was about
(simple) transitive verbs, which none of these are.

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 10:54 AM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Likewise, "go down on".
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> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 9:04 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >> English, too, has a gender-neutral verb for oral sex: "give head".
> >
> >  MAM
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