Cigarette nuts was Re: 1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean?

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Apr 25, 2012, at 4:29 AM, Amy West wrote:

> This reminds me of an eggcorn I've recently spotted, only once so far. There is a sign by the front door of a triple-decker house in our neighborhood that says
>
> Do not throw cigarette nuts on the ground.
>
> So: "cigarette nuts" for "cigarette butts." I have not done my homework and checked the ECDB on this yet.

not in the ecdb or in the forum.

i find only three google cites, and they're all from Liberia:

A man once found forty-nine cigarette nuts. For every seven of the forty-nine cigarette nuts that he joins together, he gets one cigarette and he is able to smoke it. How many cigarettes was the man able to smoke?
http://www.angelfire.com/hi4/Liberianboy/cy.html

The house was unfurnished, dirty, and smelly with a thousand cigarette nuts that indicated, Andrew would be dead in no time.
http://www.inprofiledaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1515:the-lies-he-told-final&catid=43:marthas-corner&Itemid=73

He said security officers at the base also made him drink his urine and to chew cigarette nuts.
http://allafrica.com/stories/199910070268.html

….

Amy, just where do you live?

arnold

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