Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:29:18 -0400

From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Re: etymology of FEIST



Ron Butters wrote:



M y memory is that FEIST and FART are etymologically connected. At ANY RATE,

speaking experientially, the connection makes sense to me.



In one of the two conversations that I ever had with Raven McDavid, Jr.

(this one in an elevator), he talked about feist dogs and reminisced about

an old expression pronounced when someone farted: "Whew! That must've

been a feist dog"--or something like that.



OK, two days back, two posts, one on farts and one on fellatio--am I

cooking or what?





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College & State University

Milledgeville, GA 31061

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