bling-bling in the OED

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 10:10:19AM -0400, Baker, John wrote:

>         Yes, I missed the formatting problem.  "Jewellery,
> diamonds, shiny" sounds like a closer match.  Still open is
> whether bling-bling moved from Jamaican Patois to hip-hop,
> or vice versa.

Is there any evidence at all that it is from Jamaican? The
term's presence on that list is meaningless, given that so
much of the list is clearly not of Jamaican origin.

Jesse Sheidlower