Sam Clements wrote: > > which says that 'boogie-woogie' was used by Southern blacks in the 19th > century to mean "secondary syphilis." > > I can't find this meaning in the OED, nor in RHDAS. Is it in DARE? Where > do they get this idea? > It is in HDAS -- see the 1942 Zora Neale Hurston citation in the noun entry. -David Colburn