Date:  Sat, 28 Oct 1995 17:30:54 -0400

From:  TERRY IRONS <t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MOREHEAD-ST.EDU>

Subject: Re: ?Earliest Citation of "Bite Me"



On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Bethany Dumas, UTK wrote:



> Not only do I NOT remember "bite me," I have not the slightest idea

> what it means. Can someonoe enlighten me?

>



Well, "bite me" is a slang insult and it may derive from "eat me" as an

insult with sexual connotations. I have heard "the youth of America"

(everyone born after 1970) use this expression where I am, and I may have

even used the expression myself.



The expression is not simply an insult, but in the course of turn-taking

it works as a response to something uttered by the now-addressee with

which the speaker does not agree and for which the speaker can frame no

better response (Try it! It works.) I do not know if whether the meaning

is semantically recoverable, in terms of an order being given to bite

someone for some reason.



Terry Irons







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