1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean?

[Amy West]

On 5/10/12 12:02 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> OED1 does have the relevant sense, covering both animal and human buttocks:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=r2pXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1215
Indeed, there it is. Butt sb3, sense 3. Thanks for correcting my error.
I don't know why I missed it earlier, other than that I was looking at a
print copy. That pretty much settles that any pre-teen or teen boys
would snicker about "butthole" regardless of its non-vulgar use, and
regardless of Maher's claim that "butt" wasn't used that way in the 40s.

---Amy West

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