Junk terms (UNCLASSIFIED)
Jesse Sheidlower
jester at PANIX.COM
Mon Nov 29 15:31:31 UTC 2010
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:27:25AM -0600, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>
> junk in my/the/her trunk Not in OED, HDAS
>
> _Heart & Soul_ Feb/Mar97 p. 112 col unk [Ebscohost]
> "Hey, I still had "junk in my trunk" when I was thinner."
>
> [South Florida] _Sun-Sentinel_ August 17, 1998 p. 1B col unk
> [Newsbank]
> "She had mad trunk. Junk in her trunk!"
>
> _Boston Globe_ September 21, 2000 p. E14 col unk [Newsbank]
> "If you had a big butt, you had "a little too much junk in the trunk." "
Actually this is in HDAS, in vol. II p. 331/2, with a first
quote from the Jerry Springer Show in 1995.
Jesse Sheidlower
OED
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