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Note the given meaning of STINGY may refer to something that stings, such as a bite, or salt in a wound, or a puncturing penetration, or also may refer to not sharing, being cheap, miserly, niggardly. SALT initially was quite expensive and greatly valued, hence folks were STINGY with their salt (the English word 'salary' refers to being paid in salt as the currency of exchange). Biting an erection so that it bleeds from a puncturing penetration will produce the SALTY taste of blood, an action that may be undertaken by a service provider who feels cheated by five niggardly clients all engaged in puncturing penetration at the same time, in HARMONY with one another but not her.
「Wild dog erection」with「widening an orifice, aperture, passageway of the body」may have referred to a painful, STINGING or burning sensation, inserting a STINGER into flesh, stabbing with a lance or spear, or a dog spearing a bitch with his baculum at a time when the receiving orifice, if any, is unprepared to accept the penetration due to lack of natural lubricant or some other insufficiency. When applied or rubbed into an open wound, SALT causes a PAINFUL STINGING SENSATION as well.
Perhaps by the「fifth dog」in a single session, a bitch in heat may also feel a stinging sensation, as if being stung in the flesh rather than feeling much pleasure, but instinctively must continue copulating anyway due to the natural drive to reproduce the species present in all life (and, not forgetting the engorged bulbus glandis of the connected male canines). Those five SALTY DOGS of course would all likely be feeling the same way, that is, in HARMONY with one another, God, and the Universe, and this glyph may have been the source of that English expression.
Semen tastes a bit SALTY, and these elements are「erection of dog(s), array with mouth」by penetration. Note that HARMONY means 'everyone is singing the same tune' but that song may not necessarily be a happy one, especially when associated with a PAINFUL STINGING SENSATION as if rubbing salt into a wound, with everyone having the same type of infection and howling in harmony, agreement of feelings consistent with conditions.
HARMONY is a relationship characterized by a lack of conflict, and while generally today thought of as a good ideal, harmony is not necessarily the result of all good or benign influences—a harmony of evil can and does occur quite often in the world, with all participants not in conflict about a common goal or purpose. See the Similar glyphs.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: variant of 鹹; salted; salty; stingy; miserly; all; everyone; each; widespread; harmonious
Japanese EDRDG: all, same
Unihan extended: together; all, completely; united
Used within names (nanori)
みな ・ しげ
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system!
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles?
Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
Primal elements
Chinese usage: 53 entries
Used in glyphs (or, see also): 21 entries
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Similar glyphs with related meanings: 34 entries
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