Antedating of "Suck" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

I'm going with
1) bunghole
2) base
3) bottome

LH

At 5:58 PM -0500 6/30/10, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>Buttocke?
>
>Bumme?
>
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>>  From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
>>  Behalf Of Victor Steinbok
>>  Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 5:24 PM
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>>  Subject: Re: Antedating of "Suck"
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>>    I was puzzled by this when it first appeared, but didn't think it
>>  worthy of note, at the time. The only thing that came to mind, under
>>  the
>>  circumstances, is "butthole" or "bumhole". "Backside" hard deserves
>>  such
>>  drastic circumvention.
>>
>>       VS-)
>>
>>  On 6/30/2010 6:19 PM, Dave Wilton wrote:
>>  > "Backside"? But do you need to redact that?
>>  >
>>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
>>  Behalf Of Mark Mandel
>>  > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 2:43 PM
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>>  > Subject: Re: Antedating of "Suck"
>>  >
>>  > I just noticed another redaction (besides "c - k" for "cock"), down
>>  at the
>>  > very bottom of Fred's* quotation.
>>  > "b - e" clearly refers to the anus, but what *word* does it
>>  represent?
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