[ADS-L] scatalogical sl ang (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Sam Clements]

1938 for "cornhole" per HDAS.

Sam Clements
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"Cornhole" = anal intercourse is vulgar slang of long standing; I don't have
my RHDAS with me here, but I assume it is there. Whether it belongs in OED
I'm
not sure, but I'd be inclined to think it ought to be there.

In a message dated 2/11/08 4:13:55 PM, Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL writes:


> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
> Shitpot:
>
> OED has:
>
> 1937 PARTRIDGE Dict. Slang 758/2 Sh**-pot, a thorough or worthless
> humbug (person); a sneak. 1971 B. MALAMUD Tenants 132 Lesser, don't
> think you so hot, You got the look of a shit-pot.
>
> I'm mostly familiar with the word as meaning "a lot of" -- "He spent a
> shitpot of money on a new car". Many of the Google books cites use it
> similarly.
>
>
> Edward J. Kempf _Psychopathology_ St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1920 p. 676
> "He said the "boys call me chicken and kid me about cornholing me
> (sodomy) and they call me shitpot." "
>
> [OED has no entry for "cornhole", but the term appears in a 1992 cite
> under "ninety".]
>
> "shit for brains"
>
> OED has:
> 1971 W. MARES Marine Machine 26 Get over here, shitforbrains!
>
> David Anthony, _A Multitude of Men_ Simon & Schuster, 1959 p. 325
> "I should care if some sloppy shit-for-brains bricklayer don't know his
> ass from
> his elbow? "
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
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