etymological = "semantic"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Thu Jul 5 17:46:07 UTC 2007


2007 _New Yorker_ (July 2) 25: [T]he gang of uptown "girls" (this breed of woman seeks not only cosmetic but etymological eternal youth)...function as a kind of pedicured Greek chorus.

  I'm not even sure what "etymological" eternal youth would mean.

  JL


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