swamp ass
n.— «Summers get so damn humid, a day hardly goes by you don’t have swamp-ass by noon.» —by Henry Hill, Bryon Schreckengost A Goodfella’s Guide to New York Apr. 22, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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