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  • Okay, first time I’ve seen “s**g”, which I’m assuming is a daintyism for “shag”.

    Such delicate eyes . . . is this from the original or an expurgation from the DTWW editor?

    Bowdler lives!

  • ‘A glossary note here: according to several newspapers, “roasting” is supposed to suggest the stuffing of a piece of meat. More likely, it seems to me, is that it refers to spit-roasting, with an insertion at either end.’
    —David Aaronovich, ‘What footballers really want: each other’, The Guardian G2, 7 October 2003, 5

  • I first heard this word whilst in Singapore in 1968. It refered to one woman and two men.

    One man takes either of the orifices at the rear of the woman and the other inserts his penis into her mouth.

    Just like spit “roasting” a chicken.

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What in Tarnation (episode #1599)

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Brittany in Green Coast Springs, Florida, says that when she was grumpy or irritated as a child, her mother would say a phrase that sounded like Don’t be such a scooch. This bit of Italian-American slang, often rendered as skutch, denotes a “pest”...

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