Looking for a good man-word

[Rowan McMullin]

I've heard the charming "man-crush" among my 20-somethings peers, used in a
manner similar to that of "man-kiss"...

-Rowan

On 3/21/07, Michael H Covarrubias <mcovarru at purdue.edu> wrote:
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> Quoting Arnold M. Zwicky
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> > On Mar 21, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Michael H Covarrubias wrote:
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> > > man date: a planned outing - or perhaps an edict of "man law"
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> > already on mark's list, as "man-date".  some of the others have
> > hyphenated, solid, or separated versions.
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> Drrp! How did I miss this? I was looking for it specifically, knowing that
> it
> was so common he must have listed it. Or perhaps I should claim that I was
> intending to suggest the second meaning: "an edict of 'man law'" -- But I
> wasn't.
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> > i see this one as "mangina" most of the time.
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> I've seen that too. I used the hyphen in an unnecessary attempt to split
> the
> orthography and avoid the possible reading of the word as "mang-(g)eena"
> with
> the velar assimilation of the nasal.
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> Ha. I forget who my audience is.
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> mhc
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