"taint", anatomical

[Arnold Zwicky]

for perineal words, so far we have two with something like an etymology -- "taint" and "ABC" -- and four with no obvious source: "grundle", "nifkin", "chode", and "gooch".  it's entirely possible that these four don't actually *have* an etymology but were total inventions (maybe exploiting some sound-symbolic echoes or echoes of existing words).

arnold

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