wee-weed up

[Kari Castor]

wee-wee = dick, as in "dicked up"?



On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 10:20 PM -0400 8/20/09, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> >Any thoughts on this?
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> http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/08/obama_healthcare_rumors.html
> "Sometimes
> >it seems like one loud voice can drown out all the sensible voices out
> >there,'' President Barack Obama told supporters at a meeting of the
> >Democratic Party-sponsored Organizing for America today Web-cast to a
> >national network watching on the Internet, plus an audience listening to a
> >telephone conference.
> >"There is something about August going into September where everybody in
> >Washington gets all wee-weed up,'' Obama said.
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> Hmm.  Maybe he's just feeling wee-weed off, understandably enough.
> Wonder if Jon Stewart will do anything with it tonight.
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> LH
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> >
> >There's plenty of silly speculation online about Obama's usage. My best
> >guess is that he was reaching for a euphemization of, perhaps, the "AFU"
> of
> >"SNAFU" or something similar, and ended up with the wrong euphemism. The
> end
> >result sounds like he's trying to euphemize "all pissed up," which doesn't
> >mean much in AmE (though I suppose it would mean "very drunk" in BrE).
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> >
> >--Ben Zimmer
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