"cake-basket" (1922) = limousine--et al.

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Sun Dec 12 23:05:28 UTC 2004


>"Blouse" may be an intentionally ridiculous alteration of "blow," to
>leave, very common in that era.

Maybe, but I have another speculation which I presented last timethe
question was asked on this list:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0309E&L=ads-l&P=R511

-- Doug Wilson



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