antedating of "sissy" 1879--Note: (Yankee) Dood(le)

[Gerald Cohen]

At 12:54 PM -0500 2/15/04, Sam Clements wrote:
>5 April, 1879  _Burlington(IA) Weekly Hawkeye 6/4
>
>(Reprinted from the Boston Herald)
>
>Titled:Concord Reminiscences/About Thoreau, Hawthorne and Emerson.
>
><<Julian Hawthorne( note-Nathaniel's son-ed.) came home from Italy
>when a very small boy.  He wore long curls, and the Concord boys
>plagued him in the usual tough way of boys.  They called him "Sissy"
>and "Yankee Doodle," and finally they ridiculed the poor lad till he
>petitioned for a barber to cut off his locks.>>


Note significantly "Dood" in "Yankee Doodle" here--i.e., the origin
of the 19th century term "dude." (Barry Popik and I have done a lot
of work on this term).

Gerald Cohen