eggcorn?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 10/30/06, Maggie Thompson <mthom at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> A sign on a door on E. 15th ST in New York told people not to throw their
> "cigarette buds" in front of the door.  Is this an eggcorn?  It's new to me.

The ECDB has a related eggcorn, "the bud of (s.o.'s) joke":

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/291/bud/

And in the other direction, "nip in the butt":

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/135/butt/


--Ben Zimmer

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