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I'm reading a book of Nicholson Baker's essay, and in his review of "The Historical Dictonary of American Slang" he says he spent several hours assembling the following matrix:
| You |
bag! |
ball! |
bomb! |
wad! |
wipe! |
loaf! |
| cheese- |
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x |
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? |
? |
? |
| corn- |
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x |
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? |
? |
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| dirt- |
x |
x |
x |
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| grease- |
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x |
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| hose- |
x |
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x |
? |
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| jiz- |
x |
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x |
x |
? |
| scum- |
x |
x |
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x |
? |
| scuzz- |
x |
x |
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x |
? |
| sleaze- |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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| slime- |
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x |
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x |
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I wonder if he left out some prefixes and postfixes, such as "dork-" and "monkey!", still it was an entertaining table to parse.
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