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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:08:37 +0100
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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: Questions
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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- 30 Dec 92 12:00:58 +1000. <9212300227.AA04666@sics.se>
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- >>The oysters must be the testicles.... "to mash" often refers to
- >>making sexual advances. A "masher" is a guy who comes on real strong
- >>to an unwilling partner.
- >That's what I thought it meant.
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- In this case, mash is the clearly the "mash" of "reduce to a soft
- pulpy mass", not the mash of "make sexual advances".
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