Fwd: to ootz?

[Benjamin Barrett]

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> From: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at mst.edu>
> Subject: Re: to ootz?
> Date: December 24, 2011 8:15:43 PM PST
> To: <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>, <Berson at ATT.NET>, <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
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> Dan, Joel, Benjamin,
> 
>   I tried sending the message below to ads-l, but it seems not to have gone through. I'm forwarding it now to you.
> 
> Gerald
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> Go to Google and type in "Yiddish, utz." (There are several entries). The meanings "to goad, needle, nag" are given.
> 
> In haste,
> Gerald Cohen
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> Poster:       Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
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> It's not in the script, or at least is not connected to any of the four
> appearances of 'along' in the script.
> DanG
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> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> A friend, who probably has been watching too many Christmas movies on
>> the Hallmark channel's multi-week marathon, claims that in "White
>> Christmas", Bing Crosby tells Danny Kaye - you "ootzed me
>> along".  Spelling not guaranteed.
>> 
>> Any comments?   Google Books has some provocative tidbits, including
>> claims but no previews for "ootzed" and/or "ootzing" from Dare and
>> HDAS (which are both unfortunately not on my bookshelf).  And
>> allegedly from "Story", Vol. 22, 1943, the snippet "The underground
>> tells me that I'm being ootzed out of that part."  ("White Christmas"
>> is 1954.)  Plus "ootzing" in 1946 from Jerome Weidman, 1971 from Max
>> Shulman.
>> 
>> Joel
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