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Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Feb 15 03:12:54 UTC 2002


At 10:02 AM -0500 2/15/02, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>I'm just typing off the top of my head.
>
cranially expulsive, are we?

Actually, although "anal expulsive" is evidently the standard antonym
for "anal retentive", as you say (it's even listed in AHD4), but I've
more often heard (in lay usage, of course) "anal expressive".  A
couple of google sites give "anal expressive" = 'messy'

larry



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