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[delicatemoth]

'Staycationing'.

Has anyone else heard this hideous word? It means 'British person going on holiday in Britain'. I'm finding it really hard to think of another recent coinage as simultaneously ugly and unnecessary.

[sw2borshch]

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It sounds like it should mean an American holidaying in America. It should be "heredaying" or something less rubbish.

But I have heard it before.

But I'm disappointed in the content of this thread. I had hoped it would involve smut.

[The Exploding Vole]

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I thought a staycation involved staying at home and having fun there.

Like I care.

[Bruno]

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sw2boro wrote:

But I'm disappointed in the content of this thread. I had hoped it would involve smut.

Are you thinking of 'prurient' or somethin?

[sw2borshch]

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Bruno - not really, wouldn't that mean I was hoping for neologisms relating to other people's sex lives or similar?

I was looking for schoolboyish-coinings of terms relating to toilet humour, genitalia and the like - prurience welcome, but optional.

[Bruno]

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other people's sex lives or similar?

isn't that what smut is all about? I thought prurient just means lustful. Do you see what's happened? we've gone off topic.

[Toby Gymshorts]

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To get back on topic, the word "blogosphere" gets right on my tits.

[pebblethefish]

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On the bright side though, at least I've learnt something. I always equated the word prurient to mean prudish. Which means I may have been somewhat off with some of my interpretations in the past...

[sw2borshch]

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Doesn't prurience just mean an over-active interest in other people's doings?
Which of course, phrased like that, is pretty puerile. And toilet-humoury.
Smut doesn't have to be about other people's sex lives, just cheap sexual gags, or rubbishy grot mags and so on. The type of thing a "puer" would probably like, as it happens.

[delicatemoth]

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I think Roger Mellie's your man for smutty neologisms.

"cardinal's cap n. medic. A swelling and reddening of the herman brought on by chronic bishop rage. Fireman's helmet."

[Bruno]

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Doesn't prurience just mean an over-active interest in other people's doings?

No, as far as I know it means an over-active interest in sex. (which, might mean you aren't getting any and therefore have your sights trained on others)

Over here, smut tends to mean porn, or stuff where the sex bits are the point, as opposed to toilet humor.

[Toby Gymshorts]

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Oh, and a puerile snigger at "gisms". Heh.

[sw2borshch]

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Yeah, smut shouldn't really involve toilet stuff, unless you used to be Chairman of MUFC.

But you can have a prurient interest in violence or the non-sexual goings-on behind closed doors, can't you? But, yeah, mainly sex. But not sex you'd actually be having, other people's sexual happenings. Or lack of them.

And I'm no stranger to Rger Mellie. My colleagues in a previous job bought me a Profanisaurus as a leaving present once, and I never got it back from my then-girlfriend. She was American (and probably still is) and took quite an interest (puellile?) in such things.

[Bruno]

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sw2, I think I've heard it used that way ('prurient interest in violence'). I would say a morbid interest myself.

So checking a couple lexicons...

dictionary.com:

1. having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
2. causing lasciviousness or lust.
3. having a restless desire or longing.

whereas Merriam-Webster gives:

: marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire; especially
: marked by, arousing, or appealing to sexual desire

[Gerontophile]

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sw2boro wrote:

But I'm disappointed in the content of this thread. I had hoped it would involve smut.

'Nearection': a semi.

(well, you did ask for it)

[sw2borshch]

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bruno - I've just been looking at the same sites - so, I think that puts that to bed. And just what else is going on in that bed?

gerontophile - that's the spirit!

[Bruno]

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Yesterday I learned that you call the inability to get it up after heavy drinking "brewer's droop." What a doleful way of putting it!

[erwin]

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A lot of these do get past me as I don't live in the UK any more.

'Ming' and 'minging', for example. Maybe it isn't generally used now (although I've seen it on here recently). I feel unable to use it as I'm not sure of the boundaries of its meaning. Anyone got a good definition of that and/or good examples in context?

(When I first saw it, I couldn't get past an association with the word 'minge' = 'fanny' ... in my youth).

Is 'minging' pronounced like 'singing' or 'singeing'?

[sw2borshch]

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Singing.

To me, minging used to mean "buzzing", as in "me napper's proper minging." Which was a good thing.

[Guest]

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To ming is definitely a bad thing - where I came from it had close links to smell, another way of saying something or someone was stinking. Also, to describe a lady as "a minger" (rhymes with singer) is not praise.

While we're talking about puerile smut, I have read a number of books lately, most particularly Age of Innocence where female characters are forever putting their hands in their muffs. You'd think at my age it wouldn't make me snort but sadly it still does. As does Tess of the D'Urbervilles when Farfrae is "conscious of a massive erection rising in front of him."

Stonehenge, of course.

As you were.

[sw2borshch]

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Yeah, minging meant stinking too.