Something for your back pocket: In a footnote in Burton’s Arabian Nights (in the second eunuch’s tale), he coins the portmanteau ‘drinkitite’, as in “Gosh, I sure have built up one heck of a drinkitite.”
Posted on Facebook over 15 years ago and archived here at /facebook/2011/02/21/20-06-00-something-for-your-back-pocket-in-a-footnote-in-bu/ in the Facebook collection.
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