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[UK] G. Greer Female Eunuch 266: Who likes to be called dry-goods, a potato, a tomato or a rutabaga?
at dry goods, n.2
[UK] G. Greer Female Eunuch 265: The vocabulary of impersonal sex is peculiarly desolating. Who wants to ‘tear off a piece of ass?’.
at tear off a piece (v.) under tear off, v.2
[UK] G. Greer Female Eunuch 266: Who likes to be called dry-goods, a potato, a tomato or a rutabaga?
at potato (peeler), n.
[UK] G. Greer Female Eunuch 265: The basic imagery behind terms like honey, sugar, dish, sweety-pie, cherry, cookie, chicken and pigeon is the imagery of food.
at pigeon, n.1
[UK] G. Greer Female Eunuch 41: All the vulgar linguistic emphasis is placed upon the poking element; fucking, screwing, rooting, shagging are all acts performed upon the passive female.
at rooting, n.2
[UK] G. Greer Female Eunuch 266: Who likes to be called dry-goods, a potato, a tomato or a rutabaga?
at rutabaga, n.
[UK] G. Greer Female Eunuch 265: More familiar terms in current usage refer to women as receptacles for refuse, [...] as tramp, scow, scupper.
at scupper, n.
[UK] G. Greer Female Eunuch 41: All the vulgar linguistic emphasis is placed upon the poking element; [...] rooting, shagging are [...] acts performed upon the passive female.
at shagging, n.
[UK] G. Greer Female Eunuch 79: She may be reviled as a cissy, a sook, a teacher’s pet.
at sook, n.
[UK] G. Greer Female Eunuch 266: Who likes to be called dry-goods, a potato, a tomato or a rutabaga?
at tomato, n.
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