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Re: Language slipping?
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Fri, 24 Dec 1999 00:30:17 GMT
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:47:19 GMT, "Christopher Lannan"
<shakguy@hotspammail.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Jasper Janssen writes:
> 
> > You do know what "funk" was, before the 70's arrived, don't you? Look
> > it up..

> By the way, I just looked it up at websters online, besides the popular music
> meaning, they also had some stuff about being afraid- like being "in a funk"
> That was it. Is there another meaning they didn't list. I would imagine it has
> something to do with things of an "adult" nature.

Merriam Websters' either thinks the meaning is obscene, or that it is
not general enough..

PG advised, the faint-of-heart may look away now.

The meaning I was referring to that I've seen it used as is, how to
put this delicately.. the liquid which results when females of the
human species get, uhhh, "excited".

I never said it was a particularly _nice_ meaning.

Jasper



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(...) has (...) Ok at the risk of instigating a long thread on a topic that nobody probably wants to continue with, I always thought it was the male not female to which this word referred to???(to put it delicately) This is rather an old fashioned (...) (27 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) By the way, I just looked it up at websters online, besides the popular music meaning, they also had some stuff about being afraid- like being "in a funk" That was it. Is there another meaning they didn't list. I would imagine it has something (...) (27 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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