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Citations:youngman

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English citations of youngman

    • 1672-80, Ship-load of Waggery, in Pepys Ballads, volume 4, page 177, quoted in 2001 by Gordon Williams in A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery, page 1328:
      A Ship should have a Master to take in her freights, And a maid would have a youngman to sail in her [straits].
    • 1967, Johnny Rechy, Numbers, page 247:
      There's a youngman staring at him. And now a man cruising which one? Johnny. In a hollow bowl created by the drooping branches of the trees, the man goes down on Johnny. Thirty-two! Johnny counts, waiting anxiously for the youngman also to touch his cock so he can count 33 in rapid succession.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Roger McGough, Let Me Die A Youngman's Death:
      Let me die a youngman's death
      not a clean & inbetween
      the sheets holywater death
    • 1997, K. K. Mohindroo, Basic Principles of Physics →ISBN,
      A youngman standing on a turn-table raises his hands suddenly.
    • 2003, A Comprehensive History of Ancient India →ISBN, page 64:
      It may, therefore, be proposed that the Greek invasion did help in the tying of loose political ends by a youngman of questional ancestry who had seen trying days.