"Kye bosh" by Dickens (1835)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

I guess this is nothing new, but just for the record: Dickens' famous
"kye-bosh"/"kye-bosk" passage appeared in 1835, and with 'normal'
spelling with "-sh".

Here it is, at N'archive:

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_Bell's Life in London, and Sporting Chronicle_, 27 Sep. 1835: p. 1:

["SCENES AND CHARACTERS. -- NO. I.]

[signed "TIBBS"]

<<("Hoo-roar," ejaculates a pot-boy in parenthesis, "put the kye-bosh on
her, Mary.")>>

[The hyphen in "kye-bosh" is at the end of a line and therefore may or
may not be intended as an essential feature of the word.]

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-- Doug Wilson

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