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http://www.goochlandgazette.com/


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Goochland is named after the Gooch family. The name is of Welsh origin, and meant red. Cf. Welsh goch /goχ/.


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So the pronunciation and spelling have drifted a lot since the family showed up in the New World. Of course, that's nothing new.

The name reminds me of someone talking baby talk while tickling a baby, i.e. "goochy-goochy-goochy!" One more example of how many pebbles got mixed in with the salad of our multi-linguistic heritage.


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I've come across several people with the last name of Gooch. Probably the most famous (outside the USA of course), is Graham Gooch, who was an England Test cricketer; he retired about ten years ago.


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I've not heard the name in the U.S., though apparently it is slang for the perineal area in a man...that space between the scrotum and anus.
 
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that space between the scrotum and anus.

Taint?


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Or vulva and anus? Why not both genders?


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Why not both genders?

Maybe she was using the male apparatus as the generic term. Like with pronouns. Wink


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You mean when you put the two nominatives together they become genitive?


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"She?" Do you mean me? I was only citing what I'd found here. Believe me, it's not a professional term for the perineum.

[By the way, I asked my kids if they'd heard of the word "gooch" to mean the area between the scrotum and the anus. They said no, but answered another question I had. They said, "That's the taint." That's when I understood z's post!]
 
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"She?" Do you mean me? I was only citing what I'd found here. Believe me, it's not a professional term for the perineum.

Sorry. The onliest terms I've read or heard for the perineum is either taint or perineum. There's a folk etymology that goers along with the former: 'Tain't one or the other."

You mean when you put the two nominatives together they become genitive?

Huh? Not sure I understand. If you put two nominatives together they agree with one another. If you're talking about nominal compounds, the -s possessive is oftentimes elided. Baseball, truck driver, &c.

[Added an elided -s.]

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Sorry, z, it was a very feeble attempt at a pun. Frown


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Is taint a nasty word? When I asked my kids about it, they rather cringed. But then they said it wasn't a nasty word (i.e. disgusting, like cunt), when I asked them. I think I had just embarrassed them, but I really wasn't sure.
 
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No, taint isn't a nasty word. But the definition of it can be pretty crude, depending on what you substitute for one or the other (see z's definition - "'Tain't one or the other."
 
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