See clbuttic on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "A modification of the word classic by automated string substitution of ass for butt.",
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"ref": "2009 April 10, shreevatsa, “Spellcheck is your fiend”, in pun-ctilious (Usenet):",
"text": "And sometimes such changes are done automatically, with no chance for review -- either for \"security\" reasons, when Yahoo Mail started replacing 'eval' in *emails* with 'review' (The Hindu carried an article about \"the world of medireview Indian history\", others on 'reviewuate'), or for \"profanity\" reasons (\"fixing\" 'ass' and 'tit'), of which \"consbreastitution\"^([sic]) is a clbuttic embarbutting example.",
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