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Given Watson's recollection that "pluff" can mean about the same as "puff' (confirmed at <a href="http://www.definitions.net/definition/pluff)">http://www.definitions.net/definition/pluff)</a>, and the many euphemisms for flatus that have similar origins (e.g. fluff, vent, pass wind, break wind, etc.), combined with the fact that the marshes called "pluff/plough mud" are like the eastern shore of San Francisco bay, giving off unpleasant gasses including hydrogen sulfide, I am convinced that the mud is named for its smell.<div><br><div><div>On 25-May-10, at 10:41 AM, David Frank wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; position: relative; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; z-index: 1; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="Section1" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I still don't have much to go on. I did a Google search on "pluff mud" and I can see what it refers to, but I still haven't run across any clues as to the origin of the term. If you or Dick Watson have found something that particular, I would like to see it.<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">-- David<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "> </o></span></p><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><div style="line-height: 1.22em; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; position: static; z-index: auto; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "><b style="line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 10pt; ">From:</span></b><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lexicographylist@<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">yahoogroups.<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">com [<a href="mailto:lexicograph" style="color: rgb(30, 102, 174); line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana; ">mailto:lexicograph</a><wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">ylist@yahoogroup<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">s.com]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="line-height: 1.22em; ">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Frantz, Donald<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><b style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:03 PM<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><b style="line-height: 1.22em; ">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lexicographylist@<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">yahoogroups.<wbr style="line-height: 1.22em; ">com<br style="line-height: 1.22em; "><b style="line-height: 1.22em; ">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Lexicog] plough mud<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
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