"Match me, Sidney"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:07:15 -0700, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>"Butt me" ("give me a cigarette") is used more than once in _A Walk in
>the Sun_ (1944).

Coincidentally enough, today's "Get Fuzzy" comic strip provides a nice
example of the productivity of the "X me" (= 'give me X') command...

http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20050709.html



--Ben Zimmer