chones
n.pl.— «She asked if I wanted to see what was under her panties. To be quite honest I had never seen even the underskirts of my various cousins’ chones, so she lifted up her little red dress and I gently touched that fatty excitement which would hound me for the rest of my life.» —by Oscar Zeta Acosta Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo , 1972. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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