brokebackly

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 2/15/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> "After they get cut, they hug very manfully and brokebackly for a
> million years and then cry like babies, and it is awesome and very
> sweet and very sad."
> http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=89&story=8837

Another adverb, "brokebackingly", gets a couple of blog hits:

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http://google.com/search?q=cache:forkingpaths.blog-city.com
By the way, he is also fervently against gay marriage. Hmm ... so why
does the way he dress seem highly brokebackingly suspicious?
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http://wintercoates.blogspot.com/2006/02/post-super-bowl-new-conference.html
Also, winterCoates is thinking about complaining to the FCC about the
Puppy Bowl and how Brokebackingly gay it was.
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--Ben Zimmer

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