twat (was: Re: spaz and Tiger Woods)

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, Dutch has carried this shift to its logical conclusion: "kont" is now
a synonym of "aars" and the historical meaning of "kont" has been taken over
by "kut."

-Wilson

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On 4/23/06, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> Wilson hath writ:
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> The OED Online says that ["twat"] can be used to mean "buttocks" in the
> U.S.
> That's news to me.
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> Maybe they saw it equated to "ass" (as in "get me some ..." or similar)
> and
> assumed the default US meaning of "ass".
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> (After checking OEDO): They have two cites for this sense:
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>     3. U.S. dial. The buttocks.
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> 1950 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XIII. 20 Twat,..the buttocks.
> 1964 M. KELLY March to Gallows xii. 132, I could tell her what to do with
> her twat if she's frightened to sit on it.
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> I don't think the second cite is any different from the basic meaning*,
> but
> I have to absolve them of original (mi)sin(terpretation), since they
> relied
> on a regional authority. Anyone got the 1950 source?
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> * Which OEDO primly refuses to give, referring instead to one of their
> cites, which "defines" it in Latin!:
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>    1. (See quot. 1727.)
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> [...] 1727 BAILEY vol. II, Twat, pudendum muliebre.
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> m a m
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