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| | | (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Language slipping? —Rachel Kingston
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Language slipping? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Actually, originally the word meant "a strong smell or stink" (OED has quotes using it this way from the 1600s. Defintely related to tobacco smoke - in fact, the word was probably derived from a french dialect word meaning "to give off smoke". (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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