To burst with someone's meat ???

[emsr2d2]

The speaker had recently served Bertie a large meal.

Is the sexual innuendo intended? I assume it is, right?

In case of confusion, it's not GoesStation's wording above that could be taken as sexual innuendo.

It's the following quote:

but is at this very moment bursting with my meat.’

[probus]

Is the sexual innuendo intended? I assume it is, right?

In my opinion, certainly not by Wodehouse way back then. As for the TV series, it may possibly have been intended. Stephen Fry is and has always been subversive.

[GoesStation]

Wodehouse's male characters in the Jeeves series were almost entirely non-sexual. They were generally not smart enough to figure out how.

[jutfrank]

Wodehouse's male characters in the Jeeves series were almost entirely non-sexual. They were generally not smart enough to figure out how.

Right. I'm not familiar with the characters. I just thought that perhaps Wodehouse intended it to be an accidental innuendo, for comic effect, rather than Bertie deliberately making one.

[GoesStation]

Right. I'm not familiar with the characters. I just thought that perhaps Wodehouse intended it to be an accidental innuendo, for comic effect, rather than Bertie deliberately making one.

That would be very uncharacteristic.

[Tdol]

I can't think of him doing anything like that and I have read a lot. Some people see a gay undertone in the relationship between Jeeves and Wooster, but I think it's nonsense.

[GoesStation]

Absolutely. After all, Jeeves has an understanding with a young lady.

[jutfrank]

Am I the only ... member (ahem), then, who does hear an innuendo?

Anyway, like I said, I was wondering if Wodehouse wanted the phrase to sound ever so slightly sexual. Even if the idea was not that it was meant to be a deliberate innuendo on Bertie Wooster's part, isn't it possible that Wodehouse deliberately created one? For whatever reason?

I'd like to see a bit more context.

[GoesStation]

It's easy to see the innuendo. I just don't think Wodehouse did it intentionally.

[Charlie Bernstein]

Right. I'm not familiar with the characters. I just thought that perhaps Wodehouse intended it to be an accidental innuendo, for comic effect, rather than Bertie deliberately making one.

I'm sure Wodehouse wasn't making an off-color joke. I don't mean he never would, though I can't remember him ever doing it. It's just that that particular phrase, as a lewd double entendre, would not have been something he would have done. If he was sophomoric, it went in a different direction.