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No doubt she's happy with that response as it seems to give her the "experience" side in a certain way -- but really, when it comes down to it who gives a rat's petuti about experience?
Hillary: Obama's Foreign Policy Experience Consists Of Him Living Abroad At Age Of 10 2009
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No doubt she's happy with that response as it seems to give her the "experience" side in a certain way -- but really, when it comes down to it who gives a rat's petuti about experience?
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Frankly, I don't give a rat's petuti whether anyone else likes SMA or not.
abxchange commented on the word petuti
Petuti originated as the word Petunia. I had a lady tell me 40 years ago, and she was in her 90s, that back in the horse and buggy days, the horse's anus was called a Petunia because it looks like the flower petunia right after a horse deficates. A person would sarcastically say that a person was as lovely as a petunia. Later, the nicer way to say it was petuti. Back then, they would say someone looked like a horses petuti. True story
September 22, 2014
madmouth commented on the word petuti
this isn't patootie?
September 22, 2014
qms commented on the word petuti
This could be a folk etymology for patootie with a spelling adapted to support the tale.
September 22, 2014
qroqqa commented on the word petuti
This just screams folk etymology. A search on Google and Google Books for "my petuti" and "horse's petuti" show the spelling 'petuti' only goes back to about 2002. "Horse's patootie" can be found in Don Ryan's 1930 novel A Roman Holiday (a considerable antedating to the OED's 1959 in this sense).
It is not clear how we get from the slightly earlier "hot patootie" and "sweet patootie" to a buttockial* patootie, but petunias don't seem to be involved.
* there must be a better word than that. Natal?
September 22, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word petuti
Buttockial is just fine. No need to callipygian-hole it as something else.
September 22, 2014
bilby commented on the word petuti
Rumpal.
September 24, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word petuti
Of the Bailey?
September 24, 2014
fbharjo commented on the word petuti
stilt-skin??
September 24, 2014
bilby commented on the word petuti
Of The Booty.
September 25, 2014
sionnach commented on the word petuti
If you've got a cutie
Who's a real cute patootie,
keep him under your hat.
Remember there's a dozen dolls fer every Dan ....
Calamity Jane, or some other Western personage
September 27, 2014