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fuck-you lizard
noun
a Vietnamese Tokay Gecko lizard US
US soldiers in Vietnam thought that the gecko’s call sounded as if the gecko was saying “fuck you”. In polite company, the lizard was called an “insulting lizard”.- A 2nd Brigade chaplain’s assistant is trying to put his outdoorsman’s skills to work on a somewhat embarrassing problem at the 4th Inf. Div.’s Highlander Chapel. The nemesis in this case was the infamous Vietnamese “insulting Lizard” who lurks in every nook and cranny. — Pacific Stars and Stripes, 15 May 1970
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 90, 1991
- And there were the reptiles, especially the “fuck-you” lizard. — John Ketwig, And a Hard Rain Fell, p. 119, 2002
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