Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:41:47 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Today's New Word: Bonkbuster
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>From The Guardian
(See: http://click.email-publisher.com/maaapxaaaSxoTa4fqn8b/ )

The revelation came as the Oxford English Dictionary added the
phrase, along with 1,763 other new and revised entries, to OED
Online. Defining it as: "Bonkbuster, n. Chiefly Brit. (colloq and
humorous). A type of popular novel characterised by frequent
sexual encounters between the characters", it adds that it was
"popularised by the British writer Sue Limb (b. 1946), writing
under the pseudonym 'Dulcie Domum', in her humorous
newspaper column 'Bad Housekeeping'."

See y'all this evening . . .

mjw