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Re: OT: phat/vet/fat, was RE: creolego "cannibalizes" AND "phagocytat es" (wasRe: Gaelic Thingie)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, July 12, 2002, 23:44
Mike Karapcik and Steg Belsky both came up with--
> Ebonics/urban slang is not my strong suit, but from what I know, >phat is an acronym for "Pretty Hot And Tempting".
I'm somehow inclined to accept that. Even as I wrote suggesting a connection with "emphatic" I was thinking, that's a rather high-flown word to be the source...:-)

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