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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