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Headword: *skalaqu=rai
Adler number: sigma,521
Translated headword: to cunt-poke
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to copulate. Aristophanes [writes]: "if, seeing a girl, [anyone] should desire her and wish to cunt-poke".
Greek Original:
*skalaqu=rai: sunousia/sai. *)aristofa/nhs: h)\n mei/rak' i)dw\n e)piqumh/sh| kai\ bou/lhtai skalaqu=rai.
Note:
Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 611, with scholion. On the verb, apparently an Aristophanic coinage, see J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 168 #294 (and 137 ##140-141 on qu/ra).
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 February 2007@09:56:41.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 2 February 2007@00:28:07.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 2 February 2007@03:14:28.
David Whitehead on 29 December 2013@06:46:05.
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