empretzeled

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/21/2009 05:07 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 4:47 PM -0400 5/21/09, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>Sorry for the e-mail-outio praecox.  That last
>message was supposed to have read:
>
>and their French cousin (or cousine?), "emmerdé"

On this side of the pond, we used to say "be-s-----n".

Joel

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