Antedating of "Suck" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

The only choices supported by historical evidence are "backside" and
"bunghole." "Butthole," though conceivable, is unrecorded before the 20th C.

I'm pretty sure I've seen "backside" thus expurgated in 18th C. texts.  If
so, that's probably the  intended word.

JL

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> Buttocke?
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> Bumme?
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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
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> > circumstances, is "butthole" or "bumhole". "Backside" hard deserves
> > such
> > drastic circumvention.
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> >      VS-)
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> > On 6/30/2010 6:19 PM, Dave Wilton wrote:
> > > "Backside"? But do you need to redact that?
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> > > I just noticed another redaction (besides "c - k" for "cock"), down
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> > > very bottom of Fred's* quotation.
> > > "b - e" clearly refers to the anus, but what *word* does it
> > represent?
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