"fur bikini"

[Charles Doyle]

I wasn't sure whether Fred meant by "two areas" top-and-bottom or front-and-back.  "Bikini panties" certainly don't cover anything at the top, and they may or may not offer any significant amount of dorsal coverage.

"Furkini"?  "Merkini"?

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:31:48 -0500
>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Subject: Re: "fur bikini"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>At 9:40 AM -0500 1/9/07, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>>On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Charles Doyle wrote:
>>
>>>Insomniac TV was showing Hugh Hefner's 80th (!) birthday. His current girlfriend--buxom (of course), blonde (naturally?), and mid-twentyish--had organized a party for Hef. She had invited several elderly Playmates from the 1970s, who (she explained matter-of-factly) had posed in the magazine in the old-fashioned style--in "fur bikinis." That is, they did not shave (or otherwise depilate) their pubic area.

>>
>>This seems like an odd term, in that the essence of a bikini is that it covers (at least minimally) two areas of a woman's body, whereas the fur here presumably covers only one area.
>>
>>Fred

>>
>>
>Indeed; seems more like a retronymic fur monokini.
>
>LH

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