"fuckery"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Jonathan
Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A blend of "fucking  + mockery."

Oh, like a traveshamockery?

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1112


> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Russ McClay <mcclay at taolodge.com> wrote:
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>> Poster:       Russ McClay <mcclay at TAOLODGE.COM>
>> Subject:      Re: "fuckery"
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>> I've only come across "fuckery" twice.  Once
>> here with this thread and another time in
>> an article, in which it used in a completely
>> different way.  Had to share!
>>
>> * * *
>>
>> The CIA helped Seaga and his cohorts in
>> Colombia's Cali cartel pour weapons and coke into
>> Jamaica during the 1980 elections, when he
>> defeated Manley. But while Seago was smuggling
>> blow and guns in by the ton, the DEA was pushing
>> him to burn down the nation's ganja fields.
>>
>> "What a fuckery that mon there chant!" laments one
>> grower of a Seaga emissary's antidrug rhetoric.
>> "Him come up fi' tell we is pure orange and
>> banana we must plant again.  An' him know ganja
>> we haffi grow up here to survive!"
>>
>> "High Times" magazine, September 1995, Page 16
>> Review of _Born Fi' Dead: A Journey Through the
>> Jamaican Posse Underworld_ by Lauries Gunst
>>
>> * * *
>>
>> Russ

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