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IT jargon is absolutely REAMED with sexual double-entendres

glen waverley
Paris Hilton

humdinger ?

"Intrigued by the possible etymology of the American expression humdinger, she read in a dictionary of slang that it was a contraction of humming and dinger. This led to the discovery that humming too has an unrelated sexual connotation. "

And once upon a time in (parts of) the counterweight continent "dinger" also had a sexual connotation.

As Dabbsy really ought to be aware of, given that his column (fnarr fnarr) is called Something for the weekend.

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