twat+oogle

[neil]

on 16/3/05 2:53 am, James C Stalker at stalker at MSU.EDU wrote:

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> Twat is ambigous in my dialect.  It is used for both the vagina and the
> buttocks.  A formulaic observation from high school (late 50s) about a male
> oogling the rear end of a female, especially if he was following her down
> the hall was, "he is on the trail of the twitching twat." I have been known
> to use it still.  In general though, "her twat" referred to front rather
> than back.
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> JCS
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> James C. Stalker
> Department of English
> Michigan State University

oogle - new one on me, but I like it.

--Neil Crawford