"clusterfrig"

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Apr 16, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> Today's "Doonesbury" is quoted in Language Log,
> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3905, by Mark Liberman, but
> without definition, or discussion except the implication that it's a
> euphemism.  Or perhaps Mark is referring to the entire utterance,
> "Straight up? The war's a freaking clusterfrig", in which case he may
> mean that "freaking" is the euphemism.
>
> 'Tain't in Urban Dictionary; #tagdef http://tagdef.com/poschterfrig
> also treats it as not needing explanation (a "poschterfrig" is "A
> failure far worse than a clusterfrig."); and it is not found by Google Books.
>
> Please define, state what it is a euphemism for, and add to the
> OED.  I don't think I can rely on "the idiot"s (Roland Burton Hedley,
> III's) tweeted transcription of "Soldier: Gains are fragile!"

clusterfuck

arnold

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org