douchebag

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sat Apr 28 00:35:19 UTC 2007


> On Apr 27, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Rick Castello wrote:
>
>>      One of my favorites along these lines, that I have no
>> citations for:
>>
>>      asshat, or occasionally asshattery
>
> lotsa webhits.  from the wikipedia entry for "asshole":
>
>   Asshat is a slightly trendier and less severe variation of
> asshole, ... A more modern usage of asshat describes a person doing
> something stupid, ...
>
> arnold
>

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