[lit-ideas] Re: Speranzisms
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:37:53 EST
Donal McEvoy, being rude, calls me 'sperm' (punning with my surname,
Sper-anza, and my initial J-ism) and writes:
>Try "Jisms". See what I mean.
>Actually haven't tried, but human nature being what it is...
1842 Spirit of Times 29 Oct. 409/3
"At the drawgate Spicer tried it on again,
but his horse was knocked but the gism and the
starch was effectively taken out of him by the long and
desperate struggles he had been obliged to maintain.
1899 B. W. GREEN Word-bk. Virginia Folk-Speech 85
Chism, chissum, seminal fluid. [odd, this is the origin of another surname,
"Chisholm"]
1937 J. WEIDMAN I can get it for you Wholesale! xxxii. 314
‘Step on it, will you?’
‘Sure...’
‘All right,..but put a little jism into it, will you?’
1942 C. MORLEY Thorofare (1943) xxxvii. 137
One of the same fields that the Major said had had the jizzum leached out of
it by tobacco.
1955 T. STERLING Evil of Day vii. 76
The man had more jisum than he'd counted on. [This must relate to the Oregon
accumulator of Ritchie and Paul]
1959 W. BURROUGHS Naked Lunch 90
The Moslems must have blood and jissom... See, see where Christ's blood
streams in the spermament.
1967 S. BECKETT Stories & Texts for Nothing 85
A week will be ample, a week in spring, that puts the jizz in you.
1968 J. UPDIKE Couples iv. 311
Georgene would wash herself before and after. Said his jizz ran down her
leg, too much of it.
1969 P. ROTH Portnoy's Complaint 132
You've got to..work round downtown Newark dripping gissum down your
forehead.
1972 Screw 12 June 35/3 At last I felt my gism rushing up like electricity
and I..felt the love bolt burst out of my cock into her vacuum-sucking mouth.
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