Funny Words:
Wikipedia's funny words provided a great jumping off point, collecting the source (Uncle Willie!) I already
knew, and more. [this might have been corrected since I last looked: Footnote 1 points to the wrong place, and the bibliography does, too (Podunk, Sept. 25, 1948). The right Mencken article is Oct. 1, 1949 (OK)!]
Here're some more thoughts on the subject, and I almost got some of these new ideas in the puzzle (well, I got one in, but I didn't find a link to Billy Crystal's albeit obscure use of it -- nakeds).
Script for the
Comic, though you might not find the answer there. Suggesting
this reviewer is right. See the episode
here.