jasbo/jazbo (was Re: 1913 "jazz")

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Sat Sep 10 07:46:48 UTC 2005


I think the spelling is probably not significant. I think "jazbo" and
"jasper" must be continuous in the sense "guy"/"fellow"/"rube"/"bozo"
[mildly derog.]. It's not clear to me whether there is continuity with
"gazebo" in the same sense.

-- Doug Wilson



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