Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Great moments in merkin history

"This put a strange Whim in his Head; which was, to get the hairy circle of [a prostitute's] Merkin .... This he dry'd well, and comb'd out, and then return'd to the Cardinall, telling him, he had brought St. Peter's Beard. [Alexander Smith, "A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the most notorious Highwaymen," 1714]"

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=merkin

2 comments:

edutcher said...

There's something here we're missing unless the Romans shaved him before he was crucified.

chickelit said...

Nice!