effort = "to try to obtain by effort; to obtain by effort"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/9/2010 05:40 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >
> > CNN says they're "efforting word from the imam," and that "We haven't been
> > able to effort (some other thing)."
>
>Wonder if it's a CNN-ism. Before going on a CNN panel a few months
>ago, the producer told me about "other panelists I'm efforting."


And from the contexts, it seems like "extorting" or "extracting".  Or
another, bleeped F(orting)-word, because they hadn't succeeded?

Joel

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