Re: Etymology of Rome

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

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> Really, and where in the English speaking world does it have that

meaning?

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> Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>
> wrote:
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> > dug? scavare? What does digging have to do with tits?
>
> English dug: 'an udder, breast, or teat of a female animal'

(unknown

> origin).
>
> Francesco
>
> P.S. "Tits"? As in "titties & beer"!?
>

Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet I.3

Nurse: ...
'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;
And she was weaned - I never shall forget it -
Of all the days of that year, upon that day.
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug
...
When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
To see it tetchy and fall out wi' th' dug ...

Lars