Slang
Usage of the term as a slang word for the anus dates back to at least the 16th century, as shown in Gargantua by François Rabelais. "...I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose..."
In the MTV cartoon series, Beavis and Butt-head created by Mike Judge, the term "bunghole" was popularized as both a personal insult and slang for anus. In his Cornholio persona, Beavis says that he needs "TP (toilet paper) for my bunghole." The two central characters also use the term when referring to one another.
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Famous quotes containing the word slang:
“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“I’ve found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passé before it gets into print.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)