Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:45:09 -0800
From: Allen Maberry maberry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Subject: Re: two questions: boink and fish shanty
I'm afraid I'm still using it in the old onomotopoetic comic book sense.
Perhaps I should be more careful.
My grandfather refered to "fishing shacks" set up along the river bank
(in his case, the Columbia), to provide shelter from the rain and to keep
the playing cards dry while waiting for fish to bite. I've never heard
them called "shanties".
Allen
maberry[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]u.washington.edu
On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, M. Lynne Murphy wrote:
1). Two years ago some students told me that "to boink" was current slang
meaning to have intercourse with, as in "John boinked Mary." Last week
I heard it used meaning "to get rid of (x)." I assumed that this was
connected with the onomatopoeic comic book use of old. What is current
with boink?
i use it to refer to having sex. have no ideas about fish shanties.
lynne
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