[Ads-l] Cutting the cheese

[Wilson Gray]

Heard on King of the Hill
_baking a ham_ "holding in a fart"

On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 9:25 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Fart ward". Is that a spell or device for preventing farts (one's own or
> another's), or for blocking the smell?
>
> MAM
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 10:41 AM David Daniel <dad at coarsecourses.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/fart-words-and-euphemisms?utm_
> >
> >
> campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=peoplearere
> > ading-upperleft
> > <
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/fart-words-and-euphemisms?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=peoplearereading-upperleft
> >
> > M-W article on fart wards has a reference to HDAS under "cutting the
> > cheese."
> > DAD
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>


-- 
- Wilson
-----
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

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org