"Turd Ferguson" slang book; Indiana "Pitch-In Supper" (1923)

[Dave Wilton]

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Douglas G. Wilson
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> Subject: Re: "Turd Ferguson" slang book; Indiana "Pitch-In Supper"
> (1923)
>
>
> >>I've never encountered ANY of these terms from students at my
> >>university.  Now how could that be?
> >>
> >>JL
> >
> >"sexile" is big here (as a noun referring to either the process or
> >the victim, or as a verb); students seem to think it's a
> >Yale-specific term, or did so in a Yale Daily News column in the late
> >1990s.  I'm not familiar with the others (except for "dead soldiers"
> >per se).
>
> I know only "dead soldiers" myself.
>
> -- Doug Wilson

I remember the usage of "osmosis" from my college days. That one's not
really slang though, but rather a standard definition used in a jocular
context.

"Sausage party" is also partially familiar; I've heard it as "sausage fest."

--Dave Wilton
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