honey do
Baker, John
JMB at STRADLEY.COM
Sun Jul 28 04:37:20 UTC 2002
A little earlier: "Contests ranged from the men's and women's 25-meter free-style swim to the "Honey-Do Hustle" track event, in which couples shuffled down a line double-quick with a slippery balloon sandwiched between them." Washington Post, July 8, 1984.
John Baker
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Subject: Re: honey do
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> This is in HDAS, defined as "a household chore. _Joc._", with
> a first citation from 1990, almost certainly too late, as Fred
> or Barry or someone will surely let me know shortly.
Here's an antedating:
1986 _Wash. Post_ 23 Dec. [no pagination given] (Dow Jones) Ross said he
was eager to return to work. "I'm kind of looking forward to it," he said.
"I've had some free time. I did a lot of 'honey-dos' . . . You know, 'Honey,
do this' and 'Honey, do that.' "
Fred Shapiro
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