twat

[neil]

on 15/3/05 3:49 pm, Jonathan Lighter at wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM wrote:

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> Besides the usu. meaning, OED lists "twat" as "U.S. dial. The buttocks."
> There is an unequivocal (wordlist) cite from 1950.  However, I find the second
> ex. to be ambiguous at best.
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> Is anybody familiar with "twat" as a U.S. synonym for backside?  Or is this
> likely to be an error?
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> JL
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A gay gender twist is recorded in Bruce Rodgers (The Queens' Vernacular)
where the male anus or rectum is equated with the vagina - twat.

--Neil Crawford