The stink/The stank

[Wilson Gray]

On Jan 21, 2005, at 9:09 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> "To bogart" = to intimidate, bully (usu. "into" something), kind of
> like a Bogart character.
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> Thanks, Wilson, for the first example in many years. Am proud to be a
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> JL

'Twas my pleasure, Jon!

-Wilson

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> "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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>> From: American Dialect Society
>> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wilson Gray
>> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:09 AM
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>> Subject: Re: The stink/The stank
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>> Good point, Bev! I shouldn't have let Jonathan bogart me into
>> a defensive posture.
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> Bogart? Don't know the verb that way. Bogart isn't in the OED,
> and I need to remind myself to look it up in HDAS tonight (just
> got a copy of Vol 1, ha!).
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> The only way I know the verb "to bogart" is like the song,
> "Don't bogart that joint, my friend". (My interest was, ah,
> purely academic -- that is, I _was_ in college at the time ....)
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