"burlone"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 27, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 9/27/2008 12:16 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>> Being somewhat naive, I don't know where to look for this in English
>> utterances, other than to say urbandictionary doesn't have it.  Nor
>> does the OED.
>
> Nor, apparently, does Language Log.

in our defense, i should point out that Language Log doesn't propose
to be a reference work.  there's a high degree of randomness in what
gets posted about.

arnold

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