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armpit (n.)
mid-14c., from
arm
(n.1) +
pit
(n.1).
Arm-hole
(early 14c.) was used in this sense but was obsolete by 18c. Colloquial
armpit of the nation
for any locale regarded as ugly and disgusting was in use by 1965.
