The stink/The stank

[Mullins, Bill]

> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wilson Gray
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:09 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: The stink/The stank
>
> Good point, Bev! I shouldn't have let Jonathan bogart me into
> a defensive posture.
>

Bogart?  Don't know the verb that way.  Bogart isn't in the OED,
and I need to remind myself to look it up in HDAS tonight (just
got a copy of Vol 1, ha!).

The only way I know the verb "to bogart" is like the song,
"Don't bogart that joint, my friend".  (My interest was, ah,
purely academic -- that is, I _was_ in college at the time ....)