shot betwixt wind and water:

A 19 ^th century metaphor for a woman who has had sex with a man . In Renaissance literature, according to James T. Henke, Courtesans and Cuckolds. A Glossary of Renaissance Dramatic Bawdy (1979) when a woman ' shot him between wind and water '
-- (1) To have copulated with;
-- (2) To have infected with a venereal-disease .'

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