eargasm

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> Not in OED. 268,000 Google hits. At Urbandictionary.com for several years.

Used as the title of a 1976 Johnnie Taylor album, among other things
-- as I noted in a comment on Geoff Pullum's LL post on "Isms, gasms,
etc.":

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2108

--bgz

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