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Thread #15717   Message #142312
Posted By: Susanne (skw)
29-Nov-99 - 07:03 PM
Thread Name: LYR clarify -- Bent to the Bonnie Broom?
Subject: RE: LYR clarify -- Bent to the Bonnie Broom?
I'm not sure this particular line was discussed in the following thread:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=9589

This is one line on the subject I found in Bert Lloyd:
[1967:] 'Lay the bent to the bonny broom' (a phrase of 'physiological significance' - 'bent' = 'horn' - says Miss Margaret Dean-Smith who has a sharp sense for euphemism). (Lloyd, England 153f)

Could 'broom' be of equally physiological significance? - Susanne