[Ads-l] A bogus "etymology"

[Wilson Gray]

purr-tongue n. [_play on pussy_ n. (1)] (US black)

http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199829941.001.0001/acref-9780199829941-e-37277?result=4&rskey=4Pv8Q1

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Unfortunately, its authority will undoubtedly render it "genuine."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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