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Quim’s cognates — tuzzy-muzzy, boiling Spot, monosyllable, Water-Mill — are scattered through these pages, expanding conventional usage to “signify any loved point of entry on the body, irrespective of gender or sex,” a description of sorts of Rosenberg’s novel.

The first entry was for Grover Cleveland, whose taste for “tuzzy-muzzy” or “crinkum crankum,” as the Victorians put it, makes Mr. Trump’s locker-room talk look tame.

Hats, which had lately been, at worst, ridiculously appealing and, at best, downright becoming, threatened to go unattractively cockeyed again�"winged hats," "haloes on a bender," "Milans with tuzzy-muzzy topknots."