dictionary entry for fugly

[Jonathan Lighter]

Right, and BUFF (B-52 or other huge airplane) stands for "Big Ugly Fat Fellow."

JL

Barnhart <barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
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For another treatment, see The Barnhart Dictionary Companion (Vol. 8,
1993, p 137), the quote from which has a slightly different take:

Some sections of US society have their own specific vocabulary. Your
fellow drinkers back at the bar, for instance. Are they students? Drop
easily then into collegiate slang. They won't be drunk at the end of the
evening, they'll be combooselated. The may be facement (handsome) or
fugly (fat and ugly). Brian Lynch, "The bar code," _Manchester Guardian
Weekly_ [Great Britain] (Nexis), Sept. 15, 1991, p 21

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com


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