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Subject: Re: great typo in "Stainless Steel Rat is Born" (sic)
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 09:39:02 EDT
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From: Peter G. Trei 

> From: nsc!chuqui@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chuq Von Rospach)
> Subject: great typo in "Stainless Steel Rat is Born"
 
> "-- a one-tonne angry boar hog with sharp tushes "
 
> I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be sat upon by that
> animal..... You don't suppose they really meant tusks, do you???
 
No, I really dont think so:
 
(from Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary)
TUSH: [ME @i(tusch), from OE @i(tusc); akin to OFris @i(tusk) tooth,
       OE @i(toth)]: a long pointed tooth; esp: a horse's canine.
 
    The  'tush' of which you are probably thinking (buttocks) is a
slang word (tuches) in Yiddish, a creole of High German and Hebrew.
I dont know if it is borrowed from the German or the Hebrew.
(cf. Modern Hebrew slang: (tusik)).
 
                                                Peter Trei
                                                oc.trei@cu20b.arpa
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