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    A slang word that lives almost entirely inside one phrase: **out the wazoo**, meaning 'in huge amounts', 'far more than you need'. 'They have money out the wazoo.' 'This job has meetings out the wazoo.' It is American, it is casual, and it is rude — because the wazoo is a joking word for the backside. The picture is of having so much of something that it is coming out of you. Nobody says it in a report or to a customer, but friends say it constantly, and it usually carries a little laugh: you are on purpose. A few practical notes. It works with plural and uncountable things (fans out the wazoo, homework out the wazoo) and comes at the end of the phrase, never before the noun. You will also hear 'up the wazoo' with the same meaning, and less often a plain body use — 'a pain in the wazoo' — where it is just a soft substitute for a ruder word. Because it is rude-but-mild, it is a good word to understand and a risky word to produce; in Taiwan an English is far more likely to need it in a film or a podcast than in their own speech.

    多到爆、多到滿出來(幾乎只用在片語 out the wazoo / up the wazoo)。美式俚語,wazoo 本身是「屁股」的戲謔說法,所以語氣粗俗但不算髒話,正式場合別用。

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組成Origin uncertain. It appears in American English in the 1960s, and one suggestion is that it is a playful reshaping of kazoo(一種吹奏的小玩具樂器), which was already being used as a joking name for the backside. Treat that as a guess, not a fact — nobody has proved it.

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

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wazoonoun/wæˈzuː/

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    slangThe anus.

    • "When you get burned once," Markham continued, "as I did in 'Second Hundred Years' ... where I got my wazoo shot off ..."
    • “He's doing it wrong! I am much more suave, debonair, and sophisticated than that!” “Yes, Dan, that's a very debonair stain you have on your shirt.” “I'll have you know I have sophistication coming out the wazoo!”
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    slangA horrible person; an arsehole.

    • Even now, in the spring, the river softly cries, 'Menthol, Menthol, you are one wazoo. One day I'm the elf next door and the poof I'm a river.'

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