pig as college slang(was "di?nt" (with glottal stop)

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Wed Nov 17 06:56:21 UTC 2004


>Of course, pig=police goes back to the 1800's.  It just reached mainstream
>in the 1960's, as opposed to being invented at that point.]

Is it certain that the 19th-century slang was continuous with the 1960's US
college slang? Partridge thinks so, but ....

-- Doug Wilson



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