"excrudescent"

[Paul Johnson]

Paul Johnson wrote:
excrudescent, strikes me as a piece of military slang "covered in
shinning shit"  I had a DI that would use something like that, but I
never heard it from him.

Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

> On Oct 23, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Doug  Wilson wrote:
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>> Looks to me like "excrescent" + "recrudescent".
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> ah.  good idea.
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>> Probably favored by evocation of "excrement" and "crude", I suppose.
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> oh yes.
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> arnold
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