Re: Tipping the velvet
Posted by ESC on June 26, 2003 In Reply to: Tipping the velvet posted
by Margaret on June 26, 2003
: When did this euphemism start? and exctly who did it refer to?
VELVET - The tongue in expressions such as "tip the velvet." Cant.,
late 1600s, British English. (From "Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary
of Oaths, Curses, Insults, Ethnic Slurs, Sexual Slang and Metaphor,
Drug Talk, College Lingo and Related Matters" by Richard A. Spears
(New American Library, Penguin Putnam, New York, Third Edition,
2001)
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