Miss Elaine Eos wrote:
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> In article <mbekm4pnjds7jjlgcg207ec8lvoq959hto@4ax.com>,
> Egbert White <eggwhite@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:15:49 +0000, Frederick Williams
> > <frederick.williams2@tesco.net> wrote:
> > >I think 'wood' for 'erection' is an Americanism. Is it a recent one?
> > >Specifically, would it have been known in Britain in the fifties?
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> > I haven't seen or heard 'wood' for an erection, but I have encountered
> > 'woody.' I don't see 'woody' in that sense in a couple of American
> > dictionaries, but the Oxford English Dictionary has
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> FWIW, "wood" is also common American slang. "I've got a woody", "that
> gives me a woody", "I'm starting to get some wood", "she's giving me
> wood", "when Obama talks, my brother gets some serious wood", etc...
Do you know when it dates from?
> It's sort of a slangism on top of slang to do that to any slang term,
> though -- it's not specific to wood.
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