celebumom, skeezy

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:02 AM -0400 9/19/04, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>  >>"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

It took off some time ago.  My students' "New Word Journals" for fall
term 2003 had more mentions of "celebutante" than any other single
entry.

Larry