buttockses

Doug Harris cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET
Sun Feb 10 21:50:31 UTC 2008


Breasteses seems to be fairly common usage among girls newly acquiring (or
aspiring to acquire) adult versions of same.
In NY, at least.
(the other doug)


Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> Cf. "bollox"/"bollix"...
>
> And while we're on double plurals for body parts, what about
> "breasteses" (and variants thereof)?
>

Well, "breastses" gives you a hell of a consonant cluster. However, I see a
handful of hits for "pantses" as in, pants of several people.

Chris Waigl

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