Macquarie WOTY: muffin top

[Grant Barrett]

On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:28, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> Also cited in Grant Barrett's Double-Tongued entry:
> http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/muffin_top/

Note that the brackets around whole citations are HDAS-style, which
means that the usage in the first two cites is uncertain. It could be
that those 2003 cite is unrelated to the current usage; the first
2004 cite definitely is, but I included it because of its similarity
in that it describes fat spilling over clothing.

Grant Barrett
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