Pynchoniana in the Berkshires

[Paul Mackin]

Dave Monroe wrote:

>Synecdoche, then ...
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>--- Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> However, "minge" is also a British slang term for
>>>a woman's genitals.
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>>Not quite - minge is the pubic hair.
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>... so what then of that "mingy stingy" line from The
>Who's "Silas Stingy"?  Let me know ...
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Although the Short OED says the origin is early 20th Century I don't 
remember hearing the word in my part of the U.S. until about the 
mid-50s.  Pynchon's generation used the word.

A mingy person would never break up a guitar he would immediately have 
to replace.

P.

>http://www.thewho.net/discography/songs/SilasStingy.html
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