throwup, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Alison. That makes the date more likely to be correct.  I think I'll
order the book via ILL and see if any "editing" was done.  (Not that I
suspect so; I trust but verify.)

JL

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Alison Murie <sagehen7470 at att.net> wrote:

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> > Not sure which is stranger: its absence from OED or an apparently
> > authentic
> > 1918 ex.:
> >
> > 1918 in Emile M. Calhoun _WW1 Diary of Pvt. Emile M. Calhoun_ , ed.
> > Michael
> > C. Joseph. [Independence, Mo.: Two Trails Publishing Co., 1999] 25:
> > The
> > latrines are full of sea sick ones too; Can't step without stepping in
> > throw-up.
> >
> > I can't verify the quote because I found it in a secondary source,
> > and GB
> > doesn't "preview" the original.
> >
> > Needless (?) to say this term has been familiar to me for at least
> > forty
> > years.
> >
> > JL
> ~~~~~
> And to me for nearly eighty.
> AM
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