well-endowed

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:49 PM -0400 5/26/05, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Jon, thanks to Viagra and its competitors, that world doesn't have to
>remain long-departed. You need only ask your primary-care physician.
>

Now, now, Wilson.  It's "primary (health) care provider"--we don't
want to be MD-centric, do we?

L

>On May 26, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>>Yes.
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>>Related terms were "endowments" - always plural, of course - and
>>"bounty," as in "shares her bounty with readers in this month's gala
>>gatefold."
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>>These recollections reach me as though messages from some
>>long-departed world.
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>>JL
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>>Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>>At 4:30 AM -0700 5/26/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>>_Playboy_ was using this in the '60s. They say.
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>>>A Hefnerian synonym was "bountiful." They say.
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>>>JL
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>>Just for dInIs's sense (1), not (2), right?
>>L
>>>
>>>"Dennis R. Preston"
>>wrote:
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>>>well-en=B7dowed (wln-doud)
>>>adj.
>>>1. Having large breasts.
>>>2. Having large genitals. Used of a male.
>>>3. Having a large endowment or amount of money.
>>>
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