sumbitch (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Fri Feb 1 17:54:38 UTC 2008


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OED has 1975 for "sumbitch" as a contraction of son of a bitch.

_Situation Normal . . ._ Arthur Miller New York, Reynal & Hitchcock
[1944]

" I'm inside a M4 and the sumbitch won't shift to second." p. 83

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