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how's-your-father
noun- any act of sexual intimacy from petting to intercourse; non-conventional sexual behaviour UK, 1931
Originally from the music halls, “how’s your father” or “howsyerfather” was an all-purpose catchphrase, a euphemism for anything; subsequent usage, especially in the services during World War 2 mainly narrowed the sense to “a sexual dalliance”. - PETE: [T]he chapter ends in three dots. DUD: What do those three dots mean, Pete? PETE: Well, in [Neville] Shute’s hands, three dots can mean anything. DUD: How’s your father, perhaps? — Peter Cook, Not Only But Also, 1966
- I ain’t to fuckin’ SP’d up [informed] on all that howsyourfather[.] — Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bread in Wengen, p. 26, 1999
- So suddenly it’s knickers off and ’ow’s your father. All four of ’em are at me! — Ben Elton, High Society, p. 226, 2002
- Fact is, Jessie, I’ve met punters that liked ’em dead, oh yeah, snuff muff. It happens, baby, don’t think it don’t. Necrohowsyourfather. — Ben Elton, High Society, p. 314, 2002
- any activity or business that is complicated or annoying, a fuss UK
Rhyming slang for “palaver”. - [A] right old how’s your father. — Ray Puxley, Fresh Rabbit, 1998
- a fight NEW ZEALAND
- — Sonya Plowman, Great Kiwi Slang, p. 92, 2002
- cocaine UK
- I gotta nice bitta how’s-your-father. Come over and meet me there. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 212, 2000
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