"stinkfinger"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 05:06:06PM -0500, Wilson Gray wrote:
> Jesse, I appreciate the way in which you used "punting." I use it in
> precisely that same way, myself. ;-)

I was working on the OED entry for _punt_ v. last week, so it's
been pressing on me :-)

Shout-out: props to Ben Zimmer for finding some good examples of
this for me.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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