A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

More like  "ass butt" than "big-ass butt." But "butt butt" is less
confusing for today's reader/listener.

Cf.:

1. "If you screw up, it'll be your figurative butt!"

2. "Stop sitting on your butt butt!"

JL


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

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> > PS: I analyze "badunkadunk butt" to mean a "butt butt." You know, as
> > distinguished from a "gun butt." "pork butt," "archery butt," etc.
> > Wise writers are careful to specify by doubling just which sense of a
> > potentially ambiguous noun they mean to convey.
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> > JL
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> So it means "big-ass butt"?
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