celebumom, skeezy

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:10:44 -0400
>To: dsgood at visi.com
>From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at nb.net>
>Subject: Re: celebumom, skeezy
>
>>Via the India edition of Google News, two words I hadn't encountered
>>before.   "Celebumom" sounds like the kind of word which shows up only
>>in newspapers.
>>
>>Mom: Brit's not trashy (at least from feet up)
>>Arizona Republic - 31 minutes ago
>>Celebumom Lynne Spears says the media have been way too harsh in their
>>criticism of daughter Britney's habit of walking barefoot into public
>>bathrooms and looking generally skeezy.
>
>"Celebumom" looks to be a corruption of "celebrimom" or so ... maybe along
>the lines of "nucular" although the inspiration is less obvious (at least
>to me) (maybe "fabulous"?).
>
>"Skeezy" fills in the space between its near-synonyms "scuzzy", "sleazy",
>and "skeevy", I guess.
>
>-- Doug Wilson