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From: Ed Mann <>
Subject: (OT) Pogue {Was Re: CROWMER-FIENNES c. 1450}
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 11:28:02 -0500
References: <3ab12f17_2@binarykiller.newsfeeds.com>, <AMes6.12$2d7.48@typhoon.nyu.edu>, <gilmore-ED91CB.10393316032001@News> <3ab2788b.2050924@news.gte.net>


The term Pogue is somewhat dated, but the use of the phrase "pogey bait"
to means sweets and other junk food endures.

Try pronouncing "pogue" with two syllables and a hard G, as Po-gee.

Mike Dana wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:39:33 -0500, Phyllis Gilmore <>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <AMes6.12$>, Paul J Gans
> ><> wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to remind readers of these newsgroups that "pogue"
> >> is a US Naval slang term for homosexual. It's usage as such
> >> goes back at least to the First World War.
> >
> >Just as an interesting side note, a retired naval captain of my
> >acquaintance cannot recall ever even hearing the word in her 27 years in
> >the Navy. But then, unlike a certain person we could name, she is and
> >has always been an officer and a lady. Perhaps that makes all the
> >difference.
>
> I doubt it. Dad was a CPO (like most non-coms, neither an officer nor
> a "gentleman") on a Sub Tender in the Pacific during the Korean war,
> and he says he's never heard of it, either.
>
> --Mike Dana
> Everett, Washington, U. S. A.
> "If you pound it in, It'll squish out."
> --Tom Barnts, 11 July, 2000


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