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Wed 27 Nov, 2002 03:10 pm
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If you are anal-retentive, please hold.
Monger I don't think anal retentive is supposed to have a hyphen.
How illustrative of you.
(Course, it's not the anus that is retained, but the integrity of the closed sphincter. Perhaps is should be copraretentive? Or is that mixing dead languages, like television?)
JoanneDorel wrote:Monger I don't think anal retentive is supposed to have a hyphen.
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The term anal-retentive (or anally retentive) is essentially a vulgarism. "Retentive" has been added to an original Freudian term "anal," implying that any person so described is so uptight they have difficulty defecating.
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