"butt" for behind not antique

[Jonathan Lighter]

Should have gone to everyone:

As reported upthread, "cut a new butt-hole" has nothing to do with
meat-packing. It was cited from Zora Neal Hurston's novel of Southern rural
black life, _Dirt Tracks in a Road_ and means "cut you into little bits,
you %6$#@^@#*%^!"

Just Saturday I just heard a TV comic explain (on CNN) that Stephen Colbert
figuratively "ripped Obama a new one." (The current fun form.) Not a pretty
picture.

HDAS has printed exx. of human "butt" long before 1942.

JL

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