scatalogical slang (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

>"Cornhole" = anal intercourse is vulgar slang of long standing; I don't have
>my RHDAS with me here, but I assume it is there.

Yep, both the noun ('the anus--usu. in the context of homosexual anal
copulation'), from 1916, and the verb ('to engage in active anal
copulation with--occ. intrans. Also "cornhaul"'), from 1938.  The
entry even includes the first site where I learned the term, _Naked
Lunch_ (1959).  But "cornhaul"?  As in getting one's ashes (or
asses?) hauled?


>Whether it belongs in OED I'm
>not sure, but I'd be inclined to think it ought to be there.

Indeed.  If "bugger" is there (<1598), should "cornhole" be far
behind?  (As it were.)

LH

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>In a message dated 2/11/08 4:13:55 PM, Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL writes:
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>>  Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
>>  Caveats: NONE
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>>  Shitpot:
>>
>>  OED has:
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>>  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"
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>>  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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