halitosic

[Charles C Doyle]

"Halitostic" also gets a million+ Google hits, about the same as Jonathan's "halitosic" but fewer than Larry's "halitotic."

--Charlie


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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Jonathan Lighter [wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:54 PM

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
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>   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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