[Ads-l] "ammosexual"

[Nancy Friedman]

I found citations from 2012 and 2009:

http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2014/08/word-of-the-week-am
mosexual.html

And I antedated "gundamentalist" to a 1926 item in the New Yorker:

http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2012/12/word-of-the-week-gu
ndamentalist.html



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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles C Doyle [mailto:cdoyle at UGA.EDU] 
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2015 6:48 AM
Subject: "ammosexual"

Several times lately I've come across the term "ammosexual" for what we used
to all a "gun nut." 

I assume it's a satirical coinage, and it seems to be not very old (2014?).

--Charlie

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