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Just in case that happens, I will hurry up and corroborate Dale.

Dale, So will you just keep reposting this until you get corroboration?
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Ken – December 29, 2004

Ken: Thanks but I wan't trying to make a statement; I had hoped for some corroboration

Dale, We believed you the first time!
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Ken – December 28, 2004

Thanks, Ken your research is excellent and informative.

Gregg

pogey or pogie or pogy....=POGUE....Youthful homosexual male... =PUNK--H-C Dict of Am. SLang

Gregg, I’m unfamiliar with the expression, but here is what I was able to dig up: POGEY/POGY: 1) adjective – Slang. a) a package of food, candy, or other treats sent to a child at boarding school, a person in an institution, etc. b) candy or a treat. 2) noun – Canadian Slang a) [1891] an institution...

Ken: I'm convinced, thank you

Any comments on pronunciation appreciated--dh

"Minge" = cunt.
Can't sidestep this one!
Rob 29dec04

Any chance the word Minge could be a derivitive of mange? That might account for it's usage as unpleasant or disgusting. Pronunciation: 'mAnj Function: noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English manjewe, from Middle French mangene itching, from mangier to eat : any of various persistent contagious...

Having a daughter of 24, I became familliar with this word via its common usage and meaning over the last decade. Whatever its original usage,in England at the moment it means anything that is unpleasant, disgusting,repulsive etc, rather than simply smelly. Incidentally, there has been one reference...

Dale, For the record, what you have posted above is the Webster’s Dictionary (1913) definition of MINCE. It is NOT the definition of MINGING. As I stated in my above posting, that dictionary does not define ‘minging.’ What it actually does do is give ‘minging’ as a synonym of ‘mince’ followed by a b...

But I have run across a few other sources--evidently very old--relating to mincing, eg Mince, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Minced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Minging}.] [AS. minsian to grow less, dwindle, fr. min small; akin to G. minder less, Goth. minniza less, mins less, adv., L. minor, adj. (cf. {Minor}); or mor...

Thank you Ken: Well, its "new" usage (1970) qualifies it. UD gives pron as rhyming with "singing." Any further comments on pron appreciated--dh