douchebag

[Rick Castello]

On Fri, April 27, 2007 4:42 pm, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
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> the latest issue (May 2007) of Details magazine has a piece (starting
> on p. 78) by Simon Dumenco on being a "douchebag".  with quotations
> from Dennis Preston, Grant Barrett, and Jesse Sheidlower.
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> it's full of word play on "douche": doucheoisie, douchey, douchedom,
> doucheonomics.  (the first and last of thee seem to track right back
> to Dumenco; the other two have other occurrences.)  and along the
> way, a couple old familiars: dickishness, fucktard.
>
> arnold

     One of my favorites along these lines, that I have no citations for:

     asshat, or occasionally asshattery

     -Rick

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