The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83463   Message #1534642
Posted By: Paul Burke
04-Aug-05 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: happy? - Aug 3 (In 14 Hundred and 92)
Subject: RE: happy? - Aug 3 (In 14 Hundred and 92)
(when did "screw" become slang for sex?)?

From The crossed Couple, 17th century:

And as I screwed my body around
To see my gallant gain the town,
'Twas his getting up, made me tumble down,
with my fol-lol-lol-lol-lol-lero.

Hear it sung- the implication is deliberate.