Antedating of "Suck"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I wonder if "stink" has now become more offensive than "suck."

JL

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Utterly unrelated to the original subject of this thread, but here's a
> line by Lindsey Graham from today's Kagan hearings:
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> "So it's all those other guys that suck, not us, right?"
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