Maria Monk

Maria Monk
   the male semen
   Rhyming slang for spunk, from The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, a scurrilous anti-Catholic and pornographic book published in the 19th century and said to be still in print.
   My apologies to the poetess who died in 1715, and whom I once wrongly associated with this vulgarism.

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