"fish" (was Re: "moist")

[Laurence Horn]

I may be misremembering, but I recall someone alluding to a Japanese pejorative referring to Westerners as essentially 'those that smell of meat (-breath)'.

LH

On Nov 8, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> Whom are you calling bacon-breath?
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>    VS-)
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> On 11/8/2011 9:27 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> Or, from the venerable HDAS, "fish-eater" for 'Roman Catholic'. (Were
>> Jews ever known as "pork-noneaters"?)
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