"ample bits" and "pleather"

[Alice Faber]

On 1/29/13 2:35 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>> Wilson inquires what "pleather" is.  Surely in this context it must
>> be "pleasure leather", that which a dominatrix wears.
>>
>> Joel
>
> Originally a blend < "plastic" + "leather"?

That's always been my (unscientific) assumption.
>
> LH
>>
>> I had written:
>>> I like the "ample bits" (close to "naughty bits") and "pleather".
>>>
>>> Joel
>>>
>>> At 1/28/2013 05:42 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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>>>> http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-315548308.html
>>>> We do love ourselves a bit of Ruth Jones. As the awesome Nessa in
>>>> Gavin & Stacey, her ample bits shoehorned in to all that pleather (and
>>>> getting jiggy with everyone from John Prescott to 'all eight members
>>>> of Goldie Looking Chain'), she created one of the finest comedy
>>>> characters of all time. Thus when we go to find out what's occurring
>>>> (sorry, had to be done) with her today, we are very happy bunnies.
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> I spotted this looking for current examples of "getting jiggy,"
>>>> responding to a media query about the 15th anniversary of the Will
>>>> Smith song "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It." Though "(get) jiggy" was in the
>>>> running for Least Likely to Succeed in the 1998 WOTY proceedings, it's
>>>> hung around in the sexual sense -- at least among UK tabloid writers
>>>> (of the type who would muck up a personal dative with a reflexive).
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