Eggcorn? Don't backmouth me

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Nov 1, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Mark Peters wrote:

> I was listening to an Arrested Development commentary and David
> Cross used the word "backmouth" to describe Jason Bateman's asshole.
>
>   I started searching, and "backmouth" has some hits for that
> meaning, but it also seems to be used as a very logical combination
> of "backtalk" and "badmouth":...

so it looks like a blend, based on "badmouth" (since it seems to have
the syntax of "badmouth"), with an intrusion from "backtalk".  i'm
finding it hard to think of it as an eggcorn, though, since
"badmouth" is easily analyzable.

arnold

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