{"id":983,"date":"2012-08-07T03:11:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T02:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2012-11-28T14:17:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:17:35","slug":"compound-fractures-holy-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Compound Fractures: Holy Butts"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONG STORY SHORT: I was looking for citation dates for buss beggar (someone who would kiss a beggar) and\u00a0buz-bloke (a pickpocket) in Teall’s 1892 book English Compound Words and Phrases<\/em>, and I stumbled upon this entry:<\/p>\n

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You saw that right: buttwoman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I giggled. Then I went to the OED. I skipped the 1st definition and saw this one, which I immediately started saying in an outrageous manner:<\/p>\n

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Imagine what an irate version of that definition might sound like. Ok? Now listen to my ludicrous reading here:<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>\n

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It turns out that butt<\/em> is another name for some kinds of flat fish, such as sole and fluke. You can see that root in the word halibut<\/strong>. The OED’s best guess for halibut<\/a> is that hali<\/em> means holy, named for the tradition of eating halibut on holy days. I’ve commented on Anatoly Liberman’s second excellent fishy post<\/a> about this strange series of events. \u00a0I hope he responds. I hope he never reads it. I hope he adopts me. I hope I erase this part.<\/p>\n

So.<\/strong> Halibut means holy fish<\/em>, but really, it’s fun to only change the first half, and pretend that halibut means holy butt<\/em>. Because I’m childish.<\/p>\n

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This also means that a\u00a0buttwoman<\/em>\u00a0is just a female fishmonger, a sassy seafood vendor. Nothing inappropriate after all. In the end, not even butt weld<\/a>\u00a0is naughty.<\/p>\n

Who sells these… a fish wife?!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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LONG STORY SHORT: I was looking for citation dates for buss beggar (someone who would kiss a beggar) and\u00a0buz-bloke (a pickpocket) in Teall’s 1892 book English Compound Words and Phrases, and I stumbled upon this entry: You saw that right: buttwoman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,567,540,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compounds","category-dissertation","category-university-of-york","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}