Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 14:39:45 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: Hot as tunket



Thanks, Joan.

I should reassure DARE and other interested parties that the source of the

datum I cited ("hot as tunket") may have been originally from the midwest,

but she later lived in Old Greenwich, CT, so it's quite likely she picked

the tunket up there. (Right next to the junket, no doubt.)



Larry

----------------------------Original message----------------------------

The evidence in the DARE files shows "tunket," as in "hot as tunket," "cold

as tunket," "where in tunket," "by tunket," etc. to be a distinctly New

England word. W3 says it's probably a euphemism for "tophet." In any case,

it substitutes for "hell," "the devil," "tarnation," etc.



Joan Hall