well-quaffed hair

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sat Jan 5 18:38:10 UTC 2008


On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:10 PM, William Salmon wrote:

> ABC News's Matt Stuart reporting on Mitt Romney's "well-quaffed" hair:
>
> "Mitt Romney made a tongue-in-cheek plea Thursday for Ed Rollins, the
> Huckabee campaign chairman who recently said that he wanted to knock
> Romney's teeth out, to keep his hands off his well-quaffed hair."
>
> http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/romney-to-hucks.html

in the ecdb (as "not an eggcorn", but too delicious to resist):

  http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/598/quaffed/

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