Re: childish pronunciation of "Christophe"
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 16, 1999, 0:02 |
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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:53:20 +0100 Christophe Grandsire
<Christophe.Grandsire@...> writes:
>>Uhoh, sorry Nik, in my class's slang jargon (created mostly by the
>>Greenspan brothers), "neek" means "to have sex with". It's similar
>to
>>"nish"/"neesh", which means "to urinate", as in the common sentence
>>"Meesh (=Michelle), i'm gonna nish on your head!" The noun form of
>>"neek" is "neekage", /'nikIdZ/. Although, it might not be a
>>Greenspanism....it could be Syrian.
> Could "neek" come from French? We use the slang word "niquer"
>/nike/ to
>mean "to have sex with".
> Christophe
Grandsire
> |Sela Jemufan Atlinan
Since it turns out that it's not a Greenspanism after all, since it was
mentioned that it's Lebanese, it could also have entered French from the
Lebanon/Syria area during the mandate era or later through immigration.
-Stephen (Steg)
"hhalomot zeh b'emet"
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