celebumom, skeezy

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Sun Sep 19 05:02:20 UTC 2004


> >>"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"?).
>   ~~~~~~~~~
>I have a kind of half-memory of "celebutante"  floating around.  Might be a
>contributor to "celebumom."

That seems likely. Barry Popik mentioned "celebutante" here a while back,
but I had forgotten it.

-- Doug Wilson



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