early "tits"

[Jonathan Lighter]

 But cf. "useless as tits on a boar[-hog]" in HDAS....Er, well, never mind
that....

JL


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > not breasts but nipples
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> Exactly. "Teat" as "breast" strikes me as, well, messed up. Boar-hogs and
> bullamacows (WAG: < "bull, a man cow"; used only in Marshall, Texas, BE,
> AFAIK) have "teats" and not "tits."
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