Quotations from 2005+cooter

[neil]

on 8/5/05 4:23 am, Rex W. Stocklin at stocklin at EARTHLINK.NET wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: Quotations from 2005 (WARNING: long and possibly annoying
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> Pardon the late reply; I've been ill for quite a spell and now I am
> confused ;-)
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> At 4:58 PM -0400 4/24/05, John Baker wrote:
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>> Another possibility would be "nuclear option,"
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> Okay, color me ignorant, but how do PHRASES qualify as QUOTES? I
> enjoy observing the use of new words and phrases very much. Such was
> my impetus to seek out this forum, where I mostly watch you scholarly
> types have at it.
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> Which brings me to a curious thought....I had read all the ADS Words
> of the Year to date and was curious why these phrases weren't noted
> (and was curious if any consideration was even given to any of them)
> for recent years:
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> solidify the base
> road map to peace
> "shots rang out!
> jumped the shark
> swing for the fences
> opt out, opt in
> that's so 15 minutes ago
> my bad
> hook up
> oh, snap!
> smoke 'em out
> one of their own
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> and the two 2005isms that y'all have cited thus far:
> culture of life
> nuclear option
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> singular words or concepts that intrigue me that I haven't spotted on
> the ADS yearly lists either:
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> presenteeism
> Neocon
> nutraceutical
> viral marketing
> uber-
> site cloud
> the dl, the down low
> Log Cabin Republican
> swift boat veterans
> bricks & mortar
> boomerang kids
> red meat
> battleground state
> free speech zones
> queer eye
> stop-loss policy
> slippery slope initiative
> swing vote or swing state
> fly-over states
> wedge issue
> media oxygen
> exit strategy
> faith-based initiative
> meat puppet
> exit strategy
> life-style center
> morbidly obese
> political football
> Dirty Sanchez
> splinter cell
> early adopter
> big box
> up-and-down vote
> decapitation strike
> Nascar dads
> Jesus juice
> boomerang kids
> surgical strike
> bling, bling-bling
> deBaathification
> ass (undesirable, as in "that salad was ass")
> podcast, podcasting
> transfats (aka TFAs or trans-fatty acids)
> multi-culti, multikulti
> nano-
> beatch (pron - BEE-at-tch)
> spoof (email fraud)
> MRE
> bot
> E.D. (aka erectile dysfunction)
> punk'd
> multihyphenate
> front (urban verb)
> handwringing
> spidey-hole (a variant of the accepted WOTY spider hole)
> waitron
> V-chip
> tweener
> phat
> earworm
> B2B
> mondegreen
> teabagging
> WWJD
> huffing
> addy
> gobbledygeek
> (izzle-ish, rap Latin - appending -izzle to phonetic syllables to
> create urban nonsense) as in fo' shizzle mah nizzle,  meaning "for
> sure, my nigga"
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> also, can anyone tell me if cooter is a euphemism for distaff
> "naughty bits" is a recent coinage or of some vintage?
>
> Lexy
> Fishers, IN

'Cooter - female genitals. Also Box, Cat, Coot, Snatch.'
--Eble, 'Campus Slang', November 1986, 2

--Neil Crawford