"pokeraticians" sighting

[Jonathan Lighter]

John Algeo was using "stunt (word)" twenty tears ago to describe words created evidently mainly to show off.

Check out "Finnegans Wake."

JL

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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On Apr 5, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Mark A. Mandel wrote:

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> Ron Butters notes:
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> Surely this is a stunt word.
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> "Stunt word"? Is this a term of art I don't know, or only what it
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> -- Mark
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Inspired by the phrase, "stunt butt," possibly? During an interview, an
actor described his reaction to seeing himself from behind on TV: "Is
that my butt? That can't be my butt. It must be a stunt butt!"

-Wilson


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