turn-about

[Mark Mandel]

I'd say "analog" rather than "clip", since "man" is not a clipping of
"woman" except orthographically and diachronically. In support, I note that
Marshall hyphenated the word.

m a m

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Some references appear to be to particularly promiscuous gay men.
>
> Looks like a clip of "womanizer," in that case,
>
> -Wilson
>
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
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> >
> > Maybe it's not new to anyone else, but Josh Marshall thought he had
> > coined a word.
> >
> >  From TalkingPointsMemo:
> >> I'm not sure which would make for a more colorful and entertaining
> >> story: Haley exposed as an inveterate ... what I guess you'd call,
> >> *man-izer* or the idea that a series of different GOP operatives, each
> >> of whom is currently married, conspiring to publicly allege phony
> >> affairs with Haley.
> >
> > Apparently, Josh Marshall liked his own coinage, because he came back
> > with a second post:
> >
> >> I noted below the newest development in the Nikki Haley/*man-izer*
saga.
> >
> > Of course, this is NOT new coinage--although, who can blame Josh for
> > never having heard it. UD has an entry (actually, 7 of them) and there
> > 227K raw ghits. Not exactly chump change.
> >
> > Sephora sells a product named Mary-Lou Manizer. [http://bit.ly/cFw3Zv]
> >
> > Some references appear to be to particularly promiscuous gay men.
> >
> >     VS-)
> >

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