twat

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:19 PM +0000 3/15/05, neil wrote:
>on 15/3/05 3:49 pm, Jonathan Lighter at wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM wrote:
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>>  Besides the usu. meaning, OED lists "twat" as "U.S. dial. The buttocks."
>>  There is an unequivocal (wordlist) cite from 1950.  However, I
>>find the second
>>  ex. to be ambiguous at best.
>>
>>  Is anybody familiar with "twat" as a U.S. synonym for backside?  Or is this
>>  likely to be an error?
>>
>>  JL
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>A gay gender twist is recorded in Bruce Rodgers (The Queens' Vernacular)
>where the male anus or rectum is equated with the vagina - twat.
>
>--Neil Crawford

And when you put that together with the front vs. back regional
variation on "cock", you can see where one might run into
difficulties...

L

L