deedly-ball

[Bill Le May]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Arnold M. Zwicky
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:18 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: deedly-ball
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> another member of the deely-bob etc. family that we talked about here a
> while back: "deedly-ball", which i encountered in a comic essay on gay
> life, "POP QUIZ--How "Martha Are You?", in Joel Perry's _Funny That
> Way: Adventures in Fabulousness_ (Los Angeles/New York: Alyson Books,
> 2001).  p. 164:

Kurt Vonnegut used it in one of his novels.  I can't recall which one.

Bill Le May