I concur
1865 E. SELLON New Epicurean (1875) 13 'Quick, quick, Blanche!' cried
Cerise, 'come and gamahuche the gentleman.'
Says OED
Watch out for those owls, Robin
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> Subject: Re: Gamahucher, or 'erotic verse in Australia'
>
> > Gamahucher,
> > derrived from gamahuch, is an English erotic underground
> term of the
> > 19th century meaning pussy licker or cock sucker.
> >
> > Now that should rouse you etymologists...no?
>
> This etymologist is roused to say, "Garn!"
>
> It's a French term, not English, and not recorded in either
> Farmer and Henley's +Slang+ or Partridge, so it certainly
> wasn't at all common in English.
>
> Indeed, if it's found in English anywhere other than the
> execrable Walter's
> +My Secret Life+ (where it seems to be rather over-used) I'd be much
> surprised.
>
> The passage Max quotes seems to be inaccurate pretentiousness
> run riot.
>
> Robin
>
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