butt-hole

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/29/2012 11:19 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>the meaning of "butthole" would be fairly transparent, even if it
>wasn't readily attested in the 40s.

That seems to be the essence of the dilemma -- being transparent, how
did it get past the censors?

And perhaps, therefore, the dictionary writers thought it was an
uninteresting compound?  (Advanced not entirely seriously.)

Joel

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