MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

Thu Apr 26 17:00:08 UTC 2007

At 9:48 AM -0700 4/26/07, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>...
>
>"FILF" (for use by women and gay men) has been coined on the model of
>"MILF".

One of my students submitted "DILF" in her New Words Journal in '03,
overheard during Visiting Weekend at Yale.  Seems less likely to be
misparsed ("Hey, look at that FILF!").

LH

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org