meh! (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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I think of "meh" as much older than the cites below.  I wouldn't be
surprised to find it in Mad Magazine (or even the comics version) from
the Harvey Kurtzman days.

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> Thanks for compiling the "meh" archive, Arnold. I would also add my
Boston
> Globe
> column, "The 'Meh' Generation (2/26/12):
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> http://b.globe.com/mehgeneration
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> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 6, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:
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> >> Neither in OED nor findable in the Archives.
> >>
> >> I heard it once or twice about a decade ago, but now I've heard it
several
> >> times in the last few weeks, and you can buy a T-shirt that says
it.
> >
> > BZ. 6/8/06: Meh-ness to society:
> >  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003238.html
> >
> > BZ, 2/16/07: Awwa, meh, feh, heh:
> >  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004205.html
> >
> > BZ, 11/21/08: The "meh" wars:
> >  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=855
> >
> > BZ on Visual Thesaurus, 11/21/08: Mailbag Friday: "Meh"
> >   http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1614/
> >
> > BZ, 11/24/08: The "meh" wars, part 2:
> >  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=865
> >
> > AZ, 12/1/11: Meh again:
> >   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3593
> >
> > ML, 12/22/11: Words for 'meh':
> >   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3653
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> > BZ, 2/26/12: Three scenes in the life of "meh":
> >   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3806
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