Fwd: bunny hug (bunny-hug)

[Sarah Lang]

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>> From: Stefan Dollinger <dstefan at interchange.ubc.ca>
>> Date: September 14, 2007 9:21:50 PM MDT (CA)
>> To: Sarah Lang <slang at uchicago.edu>
>> Subject: Re: bunny hug (bunny-hug)
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>> Sarah --
>> If I remember correctly (can't check right now), we don't have
>> anything prior to the early 1980s except for plenty of ancedotal
>> evidence that people used the term in in the early 1970s. Some
>> claim that it started in Saskatoon - that it was unknown in those
>> days in Regina, for instance. Can't give more details now. The
>> search is complicated because of the dance of the same name. Let
>> us know if you find anything before 1980 - we're currently working
>> in a different area.
>> Hope this helps a bit,
>> Stefan
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Lang" <slang at uchicago.edu>
>> To: <dstefan at interchange.ubc.ca>
>> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:41 AM
>> Subject: Fwd: bunny hug (bunny-hug)
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>>> Stefan,
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>>> I have been trying to suss-out the etymology "bunny-hug" without
>>> any success. Has anyone at the DCHP-2 project had any luck?
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>>> Cheers,
>>> S.
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>>>> From: Grant Barrett <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG>
>>>> Date: September 14, 2007 5:19:53 AM MDT (CA)
>>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>>> Subject: Re: bunny hug (bunny-hug)
>>>> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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>>>> Poster:       Grant Barrett <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG>
>>>> Subject:      Re: bunny hug (bunny-hug)
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>>>> "Bunny hug" has been in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary since 1998,
>>>> marked as being special to Saskatchewan but with no etymology
>>>> given.
>>>> The term is not in the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical
>>>> Principles (1967). You might ask the team working on the second
>>>> edition about it:
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>>>> <http://homepage.univie.ac.at/stefan.dollinger/dchp2.htm>
>>>>
>>>> Grant Barrett
>>>> Double-Tongued Dictionary
>>>> http://www.doubletongued.org/
>>>> editor at doubletongued.org
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>>>> On Sep 13, 2007, at 07:06, Sarah Lang wrote:
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>>>>> While this list has discussed this term before, I do not think
>>>>> that
>>>>> its Sask, CND (in particular) meaning, usage, or origin have been.
>>>>>
>>>>> A "bunny-hug" is a "hoodie" (or hooded sweater, etc.)--the two
>>>>> terms
>>>>> are interchangeable for both men and women. Unlike Vico (SK
>>>>> slang for
>>>>> chocolate milk)--I cannot find any information on its origin
>>>>> (or why
>>>>> the term is very rarely heard outside SK).
>>>>>
>>>>> I put "bunny hug" before the group.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> S,
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