Victoria Wren

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 07:58:03 CST 2011


Urnan Dictionary (slang)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wren

Wren

2)  Term for a person who gives great sex.
"I slave for my wren"

"Was it good?"
"O god he was a wren"

3) Something sailors in the Royal Navy have sex with, if they're too
lazy to wank
"I woke up with a Wren this morning, she looked like meatloaf. Ug."


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
>
>
> Cf, of course, also:
>
> "Over on the coast the Wrens work late, down inside cold and gutted
> shells, their blue torches are newborn stars in the tidal evening."
> (Viking GR 130)
>
> "It was Friday evening, last September, just off work, heading for the
> Bond Street Underground station, his mind on the weekend ahead and his two
> Wrens, that Norma and that Marjorie, whom he must each keep from learning
> about the other, just as he was reaching to pick his nose, suddenly in the
> sky, miles behind his back and up the river *mementomori* a sharp crack
> and a heavy explosion, rolling right behind, almost like a clap of
> thunder." (Viking GR 25)
>
> Besides, if memory serves, a few other Wren occurrences in GR.
>
>
> Heikki
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> I'm sure this has been posted but, perhaps, with all the good mythological
>> stuff on 'the wren' we overlook this:
>>
>> Wren: Women's Royal Navy Service.....(Hitch-22...about his mom, a volunteer in
>> same)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>



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