swirly(1990)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>I can find a usenet cite from 1990, but it should be older than
>that.  Nothingprior  in our archives, not in OED(that I could find), not
>in M-W.  Not in newpaper archive(that I could find).  DARE ends before _Sw_ .
>
>No doubt a movie/tv skit from before1990 used this, but I don't remember one.

I don't have any old citations, but maybe the "National Lampoon" or
something like that would show it.

I'm surprised it's not in the usual dictionaries.

I remember it from ca. 1967 myself.

-- Doug Wilson