"molotov cocktail"

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Fri Feb 1 16:31:30 UTC 2002


I had thought that someone (Barry?) had posted an antedating
of OED's 1940 quote for _molotov cocktail_ 'type of makeshift
incendiary bomb', but the only examples I can find in the archives
or my own saved mail are from 1944 or later. Can someone either
remind me of what I was thinking of, or provide some other
pre-1940 cite?

Thanks.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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