[Ads-l] "Natty" = 'national champion(ship)'

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Jan 10 15:56:21 UTC 2024


One I saw promo’d was a "naturally rising" pizza.  Others I’m sure are proud of their natural cheese rather than cheese food product.  

Natt[urall]y.  

LH

> On Jan 10, 2024, at 8:36 AM, Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM> wrote:
> 
> On 1/10/24 12:04 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
>> There are plenty of upvoted hits on urbandic for “natty” = ’natural’ in
>> the sense of looks, hairstyles, pizzas, etc., just not for natural
>> champion(ship).
> 
> What the heck would a natural pizza be? Organic?
> 
> ---Amy West
> 
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