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"Buck-naked" is not in the OED either, but, at least, there is a
quote under pleasure n. 2.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span class="noIndent" id="eid175465042">1974
<span class="smallCaps">S. King</span> <em><span
class="sourcePopup">Carrie</span></em> (1975) 28</span>
I'd go out and dance the hootchie-kootchie buck naked if that was
her pleasure and mine.</blockquote>
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"Butt-naked" doesn't even get that privilege. <br>
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Peters's cartoon from April 26 is also interesting:<br>
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Ralph is in his usual dumb pose, while Grimm retorts, "Dude, you're
supposed to stick it to the man, not retrieve the man's stick."<br>
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VS-)<br>
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On 4/30/2012 2:27 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:201204301942.q3UI6KRY026720@willow.cc.uga.edu"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Mike Peters of "Mother Goose and Grimm" must be following ADS-L. His
strip today (April 30),
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.grimmy.com/">http://www.grimmy.com/</a>
has several instances of "butt" -- "butt-dialed", a person named
"Butley Buttford", and a profession and place, "a butt welder from
Butte". One of the characters is the "syndicate censor", who says
"no 'B' words or we will replace you with a family-approved comic
strip", and when it appears again (in "butt welder"), he tweets a
whistle. The last panel is headlined "Love is ...", is captioned
"finding a family-approved strip", and is illustrated with the two
infants of that cartoon, both butt-naked and butt-presenting, the
young lady facing back over her shoulder at the reader and with a (I
say sly) smile while looking sideways at her male companion, perhaps
at his posterior.
(How did this strip get past the syndicate censor?)
"Love is" is a cartoon which presents its two characters naked, and
one can find an instance of presented butts in its occurrence on April 26.
P.S. "Butt-naked" seems as transparent [no pun intended] a compound
as "butt-hole". ("Butt-naked" isn't in the OED either.)
Joel
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