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title: "Something for your back pocket: In a footnote in Burton's Ar"
date: "2011-02-21T20:06:00"
tags:
  - "facebook"
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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."