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Re: RARA-AVIS: Iceberg Slim's vocabulary



I'll bet it was a spell-checker and editorial error.  In MS Word, if you
run spell-check on the word frogskin, it reports an error and the only
suggestion for a replacement is foreskin.

On Thu, 23 Jan 1997 13:59:05 -0500 (EST) michael david sharp
<msharp@umich.edu> writes:
>Thanks to you Slang Dictionary owners for the "frogskin" definitions. 
>I
>have this eerie feelins that "foreskin" was either a really bad typo 
>(for
>"frogskin," again), or else entirely made-up.
>
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>Michael D. Sharp                       "And trewely he were a greet 
>fool 
>msharp@umich.edu                       that wolde kisse the mouth of a 
>
>Department of English                  brennynge oven or of a 
>fourneys."
>University of Michigan                              --The 
>Parson
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>
>On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, James Stephenson wrote:
>
>> Michael asks--
>> > About "frogskins" and "foreskin": Do they both mean "money," or 
>something
>> > more specific? Or something entirely different?
>> 
>> >From _The Random House dictionary of American slang_: "Frogskin n. 
>a
>> U.S. banknote; (specif.) a one-dollar bill; (pl.) money.  (With 
>usage
>> dating back to 1902, and as recently as a 1987 episode of "Miami 
>Vice."
>> A frogskin = greenback)
>> 
>> "Foreskins" is still a mystery; the Random House dictionary only
>> mentions this as Army and prison slang for creamed chipped beef. 
>> Wentworth's _Dictionary of American slang_ has no entry at all.
>> 
>> Jim Stephenson
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