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

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for the replies, David, Charles, and Mark.

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Google Books sez that D.H Lawrence used it in Twilight in Italy..not
> too many uses before Pynchon's time as captured in Google Books.
> Murdoch, Sansom, others later, where it seems to have no double meanings.
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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