[happygrl]

I can easily imagine Ayers passing along the name of his ghoster to a frustrated Obama who hadn’t been able to progress his book for three years.

That makes sense.

BTW, I read a passage from one of the books giving a physical description of Frank Davis, his Communist mentor in Hawaii, as "dewlapped."

Dewlapped. An exremely uncommon description, often used to describe the excess skin around a dog's neck.

I find it difficult to believe that a callow Obama had this skill with words.

[John Valentine]

I doubt if he knows the word even now.

If I were interviewing him, I’d ambush him with “What does ‘dewlapped’ mean?”

He wouldn’t have a clue, I guarantee.

[Plutarch]

Dewlapped is a very uncommon word. Shakespeare uses it once. I did a search for uses of dewlapped, and Time magazine kept coming up. There is a staff writer who writes unsigned pieces like book reviews and obituaries that just loves using the word dewlapped .

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[Plutarch]

Wrong link. Here it is again, dewlapped .