[LINK] OFF TOPIC: Where does the phrase "purple pissing" come from?

[Karl Auer]

It's hugely off topic, but a group so eclectic as Link may succeed where
all my Google mojo failed:

Where does the term "purple pissing" come from? It was famously used by
General Patton to refer to the Japanese. It is used in the play
"Dimboola", too, where one of the characters refers to a "purple-pissing
Protestant".

I've found it used to insult many other groups and individuals, but
apart from discovering that there is a variety of plum called the
"purple pissing plum" I am no closer to finding out where it comes from
or what (if anything) it *means*.

Even without a meaning, I'd be interested in pointers to its earliest
use.

Regards, K.


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