just heard

[Jonathan Lighter]

>   DARE has _coffee grains_ ...meaning "buttocks."

A joke, right?

JL

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:07 AM, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com>wrote:

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> A member of my family just declared:
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> "There're too many grains in there!" referring to the "grounds" in coffee
> when the strainer does catch them all.  _Coffee grounds_ is a subentry in
> eOED (only 3 quotes).  Google books returns 4900+ hits.  DARE has _coffee
> grains_ only meaning "buttocks."
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