Heard on The Judges: "exuded" = "told"

[Wilson Gray]

Black, twenty-ish, black, male speaker:

"She _exuded_ to me that she was a ex-stripper."


I'm fairly certain that this is another nonce use pulled out of the
speaker's ass, like unto the recently-discussed use of "articulated"
by Sean Combs. That is, he was attempting to speak to impress. That's
one of the things that "Amos & Andy" got right.

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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 -Sam'l Clemens

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