antedating "dogie"

[Jonathan Lighter]

That remains to be alleged.

JL


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> So it doesn't all go back to a "Tad" Dorgan cartoon of someone suggesting
> "Get a long little dogie" because he can't spell "dachshund"?
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> LH
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> On Jun 2, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > "An undernourished calf."
> >
> > OED: 1886
> >
> > 1885 _Lemars [Ia.] Semi Weekly Sentinel_ (Jan. 16) 1: The fact of a few
> > late-driven and "dogie" cattle dying.
> >
> > 1885 _Austin Weekly Statesman_ (Apr. 23) 1: A large per centage of the
> > yearlings are "dogies," owing to a dry summer and a hard winter.
> >
> >
> > The January ex. seems to be based on news from Montana.
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> > JL
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