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barney-mugging

barney-mugging is the alternative form of barneymugging.

Meaning of barneymugging

Noun

barneymugging (uncountable)

  1. (US, archaic, circa 1920s) Sexual intercourse.
    • This may sound horribly old-fashioned, but I'd like permission to tak you out, you know, shake loose, do some barneymugging or whatever they call it today.2003, Robert O. Barclay, The Ponder Legacy, page 69

Questions about barney-mugging

What is barney-mugging the alternative form of?
Barney-mugging is the alternative form of barneymugging.

Words near barney-mugging in the dictionary

  1. Barnevelder
  2. Barnevelders
  3. barney
  4. Barney Rubble
  5. Barney style
  6. barney-mugging
  7. Barney-style
  8. barneyed
  9. Barneyesque
  10. barneying
  11. barneymugging

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