Not in DARE?

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Sun Oct 10 03:27:10 UTC 2004


>cat butter/catbutter ....
>
>FWIW, there's a somewhat similar term, "augenbutter," found in German.

In Japanese there is "mekuso" = "eye discharge or mucus"; "me" = "eye",
"kuso" = "shit". Of course there's also "hanakuso" = "nasal discharge or
snot" ("hana" = "nose"). I think many languages have this sort of word for
these substances.

-- Doug Wilson



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