Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Word Revival - "Necking"


Why it fell out of favor, I'll never know, but everyone loves necking. From Wikipedia:
"Making out, a term for heavy kissing, and particularly kissing of the neck"


Link here.* Later replaced by "heavy petting," necking was the frustrated foreplay of our parents' parents.


This word should not gather moss in the dirty dungeon of our diction. The mental imagery alone creeps me out (picture passing an orange to another person using your neck, but more aggressive, with pronounced undulation). So, in honor of pre-pill pubescent pleasure, we honor necking, in both word and deed.

*According to wikipedia, people are not the only animals who "neck." Giraffes neck too:
The longer the neck, and the heavier the head at the end of the neck, the greater the force a giraffe is able to deliver in a blow. It has also been observed that males that are successful in necking have greater access to estrous females, so the length of the neck may be a product of sexual selection.

Of course, its not the length of the neck, but how you use it.

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