Comments | ric_amerin: ...The OED beats around the bush, as it were...

ric_amerin

...The OED beats around the bush, as it were...

Oct 02, 2007 22:08

1. (See quot. 1727.)
Erroneously used (after quot. 1660) by Browning Pippa Passes IV. ii. 96 under the impression that it denoted some part of a nun's attire.
1656 R. FLETCHER tr. Martial II. xliv. 104. 1660 Vanity of Vanities 50 They talk't of his having a Cardinalls Hat, They'd send him as soon an Old Nuns Twat. a1704 T. BROWN Sober Slip in ( Read more... )

cuss words, definitions

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speakersaraneth October 2 2007, 23:04:00 UTC

Because you were arguing that twats and not twits were pregnant fish.

ric_amerin October 3 2007, 11:06:48 UTC

Well, I looked it up because I like knowing when I'm wrong about words that I do use once in awhile (it makes me break out in hives to think I'm functioning under inaccurate definitions). But I posted it so that I could use that horrible, horrible pun.

Also, because it amuses me that that definition does not actually include a definition.

wrathpanda October 4 2007, 09:42:01 UTC

Of course it doesn't include a definition; it is a dictionary, not some smut-filled filth mag. (Check my semi-colon. Is it not nifty?)

Do the Americans really use twat to refer to the buttocks? Did they just get very confused over words like twat and fanny, or are there Bowdlerists at work?

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