GR translation: no, you nasty little wet-mouthed prig

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 05:07:13 CST 2016


Urban dictionary, of the present (2005 anyway) sez:

1. Someone who gets overly excited about something.

2. A youngster.

3. After performing oral sex on a woman.
Calm down wet mouth.

Go wash out your wet mouth.
by Mike the G December 22, 2005
2017
3

WETMOUTH
WHEN A FEMALE PERFORMS ORAL
MAN THAT BITCH GAVE ME WETMOUTH LIKE NO OTHER!
by TERAN June 30, 2005
711

Seems to indicate a possible sex meaning to contrast with "priggishness".

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps illustrating a fundamental contradiction of "priggishness"....
>
> love,
> cfa
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 9:42 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Salivating, slobbering, sort of out of control.  But it doesn't seem to go
>> well with "prig" which implies an uptightness.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Mike Jing
>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> V694.30-34, P708.16-20   Everything freezes. The sweet, icky chord hangs
>>> in the air . . . there is no way to be at ease with it. If you try the “Are
>>> you quite finished, Superintendent?” gambit, the man will answer, “No, as a
>>> matter of fact . . . no, you nasty little wet-mouthed prig, I’m not half
>>> finished, not with you . . . .”
>>>
>>> What does "wet-mouthed" mean here?
>>
>>
>
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