Word: swiving
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...Ralph Bakshi has made of Crumb's world is something else again. Fritz, the hero, is what the average campus revolutionary was in the late '60s-a fool tabby, living off vicarious experience, with his head full of windy sub-Marcusian rhetoric and only one ambition: to swive. Fritz gets involved in a hilarious orgy in a Village bathtub, is nearly busted by two cops, drawn inevitably as pigs, takes off to Harlem after an interminable chase through a synagogue, and is turned on to grass. Stoned, he makes inadequate love to a blimplike crow named Big Bertha...
...Women have been called drabs, slommacks, traipses, malkins, draggletails, blowens, bawdy baskets and bobtails. As for the act of sex, Greer likes the obsolete word swive because it has no vulgar linguistic emphasis on "the poking element...