Not in DARE?

[Wilson Gray]

On Oct 9, 2004, at 3:36 PM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:

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> Here are some alternatives to "cat butter": apparently "sleep" is the
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> popular. Note "kitty". I like "eye shit" or "eye booger" myself.

Eew, Doug! That's gross!;-)

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> http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_82.html
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> I imagine that this "sleep" is originally a back-formation from a
> figurative expression maybe?
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> -- Doug Wilson
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Thanks for reminding me of the existence of that site. You know what I
find interesting? That there are people who don't have a word for
something that I have a word for or that I don't have a word for
something that other people have a word for.

-Wilson Gray