"pompa-hawk"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/10/2012 03:06 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>I guess the other contender was "mo-dour".

pompa-hawk : tomahawk :: mo-dour : ??  That may be why mo-dour was
not a contender.

Joel


>LH
>
>On May 10, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> > Tom Brady's new hair style, as "dubbed" by TMZ, according to today's
> > Boston Globe.
> >
> > But did TMZ coin this?  Urban Dictionary claims to have 2003, and a
> > reference to Kim Jong Il's hair in 2008.  (Wikipedia's picture
> > definitely shows an asymmetric cut, high in the middle.)  Then Google
> > has nothing until 2006 and 2007, when there are a few sightings
> > outside Urban Dictionary.  Nothing in Google Books.
> >
> > Joel
> >
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