halitosic
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 13 17:54:58 UTC 2011
Not that OED has "halitotic" either.
A better word yet would be "halitoxic," but that only gets 220 hits and none
in the OED.
JL
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
> You win. I shoulda took Greek.
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> At 11:05 AM -0500 1/13/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> >Halitosis is such a commonly known word that one is amazed not to find
>> the
>> >corresponding adj. "halitosic" in either MW11 or OED.
>> >
>> >Hundreds of raw Googlits. What other word would do?
>> >
>> >JL
>> >
>> >--
>> ...and my "halitotic" beats your "halitosic" 4 to 1, so it must be a
>> better word.
>>
>> LH
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