Weak lean / (weakling) eggcorn

[Laurence Horn]

There's also "weaklink", as in:

When I try to wrestle with one of my kids, I feel like the 98 pound weaklink that has sand kicked in his face.
http://johnchuran.blogspot.com/2010/01/january-16-2010-getting-old.html



LH


On Nov 1, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:58 AM, Larry Horn wrote:
> 
>> There are a lot of hits under "weaklean" spelled as one word, although most (but not all) involve someone's twitter or facebook tag of that form (sorry, I don't know the lingo).
> 
> here are three examples (of many):
> 
>  the parchute tarps that I spoke about weigh right at 100#--being a "weaklean" that won't work.
> http://ltlhotshot.myfreeforum.org/ftopic4016-20.php
> 
>  SO IF YOU GET BEATEN BY THIS GUY YOU MOST BE THE MOST GAYEST AND THE MOST BIGGEST FUCKIN WEAKLEAN WALKIN THIS FUCKIN PLANET
> http://www.angelfire.com/hi2/SLICK50/CWOPICS.html
> 
>  But in case if things do get to hairy (I don't mean having to much hair), then I will fight back so that way if anybody knows I'm not a weaklean, if I don't have any choice.
> http://www.youtube.com/user/9ColinCampell
> 
> arnold
> 
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