beaner

[Scot LaFaive]

I don't have the original message here, but just in case it wasn't
mentioned, what about "beaner" specifically as a marijuana seed, especially
in the amount of marijuana being smoked. I notice it is not in HDAS, not
sure about DARE (probably not), and it isn't in OED. Anyone including it in
one of their various dictionaries out there, besides the cesspool of Urban
Dictionary?

Scot LaFaive



>From: "Neudorf, Paula" <paula.neudorf at OUP.COM>
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>Subject: Re: beaner
>Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:58:40 -0400
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>'Beaner' in this sense is also in the OED (first quot. 1969); however,
>there are no quotations for 'brown as a beaner' at that definition.
>
>For what it's worth, I grew up in Nevada where 'beaner' was very
>common to me. I've never heard 'brown as a beaner'. The phrase gets
>only 1 hit on Google, and no hits on Nexis, so I'm guessing it's
>either really rare or too recent to have appeared in a lot of
>publications.
>
>Paula Neudorf
>OED
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>From: Frank Abate
>Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 2:25 PM
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: beaner
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>Recording for all the derogatory/disparaging expression:
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>             "brown as a beaner"
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>This is heard pretty commonly around here (Cincinnati area) in
>reference to
>people from Mexico.  It is NOT complimentary, in the using of it OR
>(esp.)
>in the receiving,
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>Just opening this up for discussion.  DARE has beaner, but not the
>simile.
>I'm not sure if Spears has it in one of his phrases or slang
>dictionaries.
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>
>Frank Abate
>
>FABATE at cinci.rr.com
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