More butts

[Jonathan Lighter]

Somewhere along the line ISTR some unreasonable doubt as to whether "butt"
was ever considered vulgar.

Cf.:

1941 _Springfield [Mass.] Republican_ (July 11) 12: "General Lear he missed
his putt/  Parley vous/ The 110th got it in the ---- / Hinky-dinky
parlez-vous."

(I.e., they suffered as a result. Had the word been "ass," I doubt that it
would even have been  alluded to but you don't expurgate what nobody thinks
is vulgar.)

JL


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
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> > "Buck-naked"
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> Does the OED have "buck-_nekkid_"? That's the way that I've seen it in
> print since way back when.
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