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- Chicago Tribune update; Afro American & "cool," "push/shove," "Big Apple"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- skeedaddle (May 1861)-Gaelic football?
Barnhart
- bobby pin
sagehen
- homiesexual: probably an inevitable coining
Arnold M. Zwicky
- porn-star names that are puns
Arnold M. Zwicky
- porn-star names that are NOT puns
RonButters at AOL.COM
- ready, willing and able-1825
James A. Landau
- Spanglish (1958); Hasta la vista (1875)
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- Busier than cranberry merchant (1895); Beer on whiskey (1926)
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- Clever, those Japanese (1911); Cut and run (1676?); Cast iron stomach (1868); Blind in one eye (1917)
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- "Different strokes for different folks"
Wilson Gray
- Twin Cities (1883, 1884)
Tom Kysilko
- Different Strokes For Different Folks (1967)
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- Smarty Pants (1937); Cold hands, Warm Heart/Dirty Feet, No Sweetheart
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- Cookie Duster (1925); George Marshall's West Point football player; Crooked as Snake Barrel
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- Sunday throat (1905); Peas with a knife (1828); Ears lowered (1947)
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- E for Effort (1940)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- More re "Different Strokes"
Wilson Gray
- Don't trouble trouble (1836); Fight circle saw (1940); Flat as fritter (1864)
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- APS Online
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Hundred Mile Stare. Etc.
Joyce, Thomas F.
- snakes and peas
Mark A. Mandel
- malaprop amongst the flowers
Mark A. Mandel
- "ham and egger" -- horse lingo
Geoffrey Nunberg
- "Big Apple" on NYPL; American Periodical Series Online
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- "Honest as the day is long" (1814)
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- Bogus Stalin: "One death a tragedy, million deaths a statistic"
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- Fw: Marshall West Point story
Alan Baragona
- Fall of Turnip Truck (1976); Gnat's Eyebrow (1917); Hide, Hair and All (1886)
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- Call me anything, but don't call me late for dinner (1960)
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- Do it yourself (1863); Snake bite (1909); Cuss a cat (1950)
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- Not all that
Benjamin Barrett
- Hundred Mile Stare
James A. Landau
- Leprechauns vs. brownies
Wilson Gray
- "Early American Newspapers" arriving end of May
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- E for...
Jerome Foster
- HARDY HAR HAR
George Thompson
- query: "stud muffin"
Arnold M. Zwicky
- E for Effort
Sean Fitzpatrick
- Laws made to be broken (1880)
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- Lawsy Mercy (1867)
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- Left-handed monkey wrench (1873)
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- Little people talk about people (1960)
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- Freckles, cows and bran; Not bad manners, just good beer
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- Mountain Oysters (1862)
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- Mountain Oysters (1857)
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- Why buy a cow? (1905)
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- Antedating of "Racquetball"
Fred Shapiro
- Downstate Illinois
Page Stephens
- [SPAM:##] bipartisan 'partisan'
Arnold M. Zwicky
- [SPAM:##] Fwd: Reply From Troutman Sanders LLP
Arnold M. Zwicky
- _bell can't be unrung_?
Sam Clements
- Racketball (1965)
Douglas G. Wilson
- bipartisan 'partisan'
Geoffrey Nunberg
- Tom Yam (Thai Soup) (1965)
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- Pave (1903); Chocolate Silk (1966); "Hay and Straw" Pasta (1968)
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- feel needed, Barry!
George Thompson
- Horse-players' Wisdom from the Times
George Thompson
- One for the money, two for the show (1892)
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- One for the money, two for the show -now 1861
Sam Clements
- "hot dog" questions; term banned at Coney Island, 1913
Gerald Cohen
- Ptomaine Palace (1952); Pool Hall, Study Hall, and Alcohol; Wind the Cat (1917)
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- Right Church, Wrong Pew (1884)
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- Girl Scout Cookie
James A. Landau
- Pavé
Damien Hall
- Stud-muffin
Damien Hall
- One for the money, two for the show (1892); Pukora (1932)
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- "One to make ready..." (1837)
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- Ezekiel Bread (1973); AAC; Agnoletti (1930); Far Out, Brussel Sprout
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- Sober as a judge (1682)
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- Best Damn--, Period; Mud in Your Eyes
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- CBRN (1998); "Don't Be a Piano Player in a Whorehouse"
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- Son of a Biscuit Eater (1877); Soup Strainer (1907)
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- Sticks and Stones (1909); I Saw Esau (1870)
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- waiting for another shoe to drop??
Barnhart
- "Don't Be a Piano Player in a Whorehouse"
Kathleen E. Miller
- Tom Yam (1952); "Grass and Straw" Pasta (1972)
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- cheese on toast
Allen D. Maberry
- Panna Cotta (1984)
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- eye for a prune
AAllan at AOL.COM
- Mont Blanc; Another Shoe Dropping
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- Cats' Tongues (1894); Swallow a Watermelon Seed (1870?)
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- Eye for a Prune (??); Tall Drink of Water; Hair on Your Chest
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- Eye for a Prune (??)
James Knight
- "Ancestors" including son; "was insinuated" = "happened"
Mark A. Mandel
- Son of a Biscuit Eater (1877)
James A. Landau
- OT: "Shyster" in today's NY SUN
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- "Ancestors" including descendants
Beverly Flanigan
- Clothespeg
Tom Kysilko
- "upskirting", "downblousing"
Laurence Horn
- "Ancestors" including son;
Dave Hause
- Torturegate (May 6); Zionazi (1989); OT: "Feel needed, Barry"
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- Damned if you do/don't (1856); When you gotta go (1926?)
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- Baseball in 1791?????
Sam Clements
- American as Apple Pie (1921); A Little Garlic (1935); When You Assume (1984)
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- early baseball
George Thompson
- When You Assume (1984)
Laurence Horn
- sancture
Barnhart
- sancture -- AHAH!
Barnhart
- Dooring; Tiradito; Japanese Cheap Eats (Takoyaki, Kushikatsu, Omusubi)
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- Chirashi, Oshinko, Oshitashi/Ohitashi; Gin Rummy (1940)
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- Travishamockery or Traveshamockery
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- Antedating of "American Dream"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Tooth Fairy"
Fred Shapiro
- Passing the Lemon; Card-Carrying Heterosexual
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- "Jazz" in Chicago Tribune
Fred Shapiro
- Re: Passing the Lemon; Card-Carrying Heterosexual
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Lexical Database Software
Dave Wilton
- Antedating of "wiggle room" 1965
Sam Clements
- "Exhaust oneself of" = 'get tired of'
Mark A. Mandel
- Jazz; Lexical Database; Poseidon Bakery and Greek goodies
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- Fin & Feather (chicken and shrimp); Funnel Cake (1924); M.O.P, S.P.O.M.
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- Antedating of "Bible Belt"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Columnist"
Fred Shapiro
- "stoop" ball (1909)
Barnhart
- Jap (1860)
Barnhart
- Antedating of "Fundamentalism"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Isolationist"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Racketeer"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Sex Appeal"
Fred Shapiro
- unspecified object deletion in the cause of equality
Laurence Horn
- Antedating of "Strip-Tease"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Unquote"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Pizzeria"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Pizzeria" (Totonno's, 1924)
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- Unquote (1918)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Land and Sea (1976); Greek food on Newspaperarchive
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- good people
Benjamin Barrett
- Land and Sea (1976)
Laurence Horn
- Greek pastry in ProQuest; "S & M Thai Style"
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- Foodscape(1985)
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- "specializes in everything"
Mark A. Mandel
- Blondies (1952); Reverse Drinks; Joke of the Day
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- Re: "specializes in everything"
RonButters at AOL.COM
- "You're not out of it until you're out of it" (Yogi, 1974)
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- Drive-In (1928?); Tailgate Picnic (1962); Black Forest Cake (1961)
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- EOD, IED, UXO (acronyms seen discussing Iraq)
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- Gitmo-ize
Clai Rice
- Misburial (was Gitmo-ize)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- hide binders (high binders)
George Thompson
- antedating of "hoax"
George Thompson
- Further Antedating of "Hoax"
Fred Shapiro
- Buckwheats or Griddles
George Thompson
- Echaudés
George Thompson
- fat lady swan song?
Yerkes, Susan
- pumpkin lads
George Thompson
- Hoax (1801)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Reply to Arnold
Peter A. McGraw
- sketched out
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Virgin Sauce (sauce vierge); Thai Mee Up; S&M (spaghetti & meatballs)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- "Live Juices" (1976-77), "NRG," "Chick-none"
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- Wondering about "hot dog" = show off.
Gerald Cohen
- "Hot Dog" fighter in boxing
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- "Hot Dog" fighter in boxing (1941)
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- Bismarcks (1894); Laws are like sausages (1871)
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- sport peppers
Joan Houston Hall
- What goes around comes around (1970)
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- Antedating of "Jelly Bean"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Baked Alaska"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Jelly Bean" 1886
Sam Clements
- Google Answers: Iraq Slang, the Big Apple
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- Antedating of "Twilight Zone"
Fred Shapiro
- Latin languages
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Hypercorrection of /w/-/hw/
Alice Faber
- Antedating of "Brassiere"
Fred Shapiro
- Antedating of "Dadaism"
Fred Shapiro
- "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" (1926)
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- "War is hell" (1860)
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- "Better to light a/one candle than to curse the darkness" (1940)
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- Mayville Area
Terry Irons
- how 'bout them Bills? discourse organization in Washington culture
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Waiting for shoes to drop
Damien Hall
- A more complete information
Damien Hall
- Coup de grâce
Damien Hall
- Invincible season
Damien Hall
- MILF
Damien Hall
- MILF
Gregory {Greg} Downing
- No Blood, No Foul (1975); Pinch Me, I'm Dreaming (1845)
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- Rabbits' Ears, Lost Eggs, Windbags (1955); Eel of Fortune
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- No Harm, No Foul (1954)
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- Cicheti/Cicchetti (1988); Veal Oscar (1958)
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- ADS-L Digest - 21 May 2004 to 22 May 2004 (#2004-144)
Mark A. Mandel
- Flatiron Steak (1964); Naanwich and Naanini; Google Answers
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- Naked Shrimp (1984); Dancing Shrimp (1975)
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- No subject
Arnold M. Zwicky
- one more from Instinct
Arnold M. Zwicky
- Samsoe (1951); Esrom (1952); Havarti (1954); Mysost (1891)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- hot dog--1952 "Yogi is a hot dog player"--Meaning is unclear
Gerald Cohen
- "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst" (1847)
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- Re: Re: Coup de gr‚ce
Steve Boatti
- "With all deliberate speed" (1817); "Hope for the best" (1791)
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- Off the wall
Page Stephens
- Pandowdy (1843); Egg Bound (1865); Eton Mess (1922)
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- Pandowdy (1843) (extra 1834 citation)
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- Angels Biscuits; "Civilization is judged by prisoner treatment"
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- origin of "wuss" or "wussie" ??
Sam Clements
- origin of "wuss"; "As the feller says" (1886);"Bloom for the grave " (1996)
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- Coup de grace
Damien Hall
- This List
Page Stephens
- Abu Graib
Barnhart
- Letter to NYT on "Baseball"
Fred Shapiro
- Painting the porsche
Yerkes, Susan
- "Google Answers" removes "the Big Apple"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Pussy-wussy (1914, 1915)
Douglas G. Wilson
- Books "flying off the shelves"
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Q (barbecue) (1996)
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- baked numbers
Arnold M. Zwicky
- National Museum of Language Annual Dinner 2004
Kathleen E. Miller
- in re Google
Page Stephens
- [porsh] and other British English (was: Coup de grace)
Damien Hall
- Jalapenos, Nopalitos (1931); Singing Shrimp; Snow Fungus
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- Sloppy Nachos; CBS (Chicken, Beef, Shrimp); XO Sauce
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- "flying off the shelves"
James A. Landau
- General linguistic terminology (bound morph(eme))
Jesse Sheidlower
- books for review
Clai Rice
- The Next Kiwi; OT: Mark Mandel or Dragon?
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- Preakness
Damien Hall
- Re: Coup de grace
Steve Boatti
- She's my bro
Damien Hall
- counterfeiter's slang again
George Thompson
- Nice People & Nice Problems; Big/Full/Whole Enchilada
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- Disco Fries (New Jersey's poutine) (1996)
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- ADS in NYT
Jesse Sheidlower
- Fwd: ABCNEWS.com -- What's in a (team) name?
Arnold M. Zwicky
- ghey/ghay
Arnold M. Zwicky
- "hot dog" baseball player, 1954
Gerald Cohen
- Disco Fries (more, more, more); Duck Lady & Smiling Duck Salads
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- Faux Pork, Fakin' Bacon, Pseudo-Sausage, Mock Meat, Synthetic Soup
Bapopik at AOL.COM
- The Lady [Team Nicknames]
Wilson Gray
- Iced Tea (again); Proquest through SABR!
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- Salt Water Taffy (1889)
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- "hot dog!"
sagehen
- Peameal bacon
Tom Kysilko
- "Harder They Fall"
Fred Shapiro
- "Windy City" myth (1935)
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- BLT (1944)
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- "Mutt" etymology (speculative)
Douglas G. Wilson
- OT: WAS THAT MARK MANDEL OR THE DRAGON TALKING?
Mark A. Mandel
- Thousand Island Dressing (1913); Copasetic (1920); Caesar's Place (1933)
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- Pastroma/Pastrami (1916)
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- Greatest Generation?
Dave Wilton
- Pastrama (1914); Chicken Kiev; Chicago Piano & Chicago Typewriter
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- Pie a la mode (1895); Fudge (1895); Red hot (1893)
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- Re: "Windy City" myth (1935)
RonButters at AOL.COM
- Red hot (1893)
Sam Clements
- Lexical blend: "shing-ding"
Gerald Cohen
- "Cafeteria" conundrum (1893-94); Chicken Tetrazzini (1911)
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- Who struck Billie Patterson
Michael Quinion
- pax
Prof. R. Sussex
- Hamburger steak sandwich (1894), Sukiyaki (1911); Belgian Waffles (1963); BYOB
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- Evolution of Language
John McChesney-Young
- gay/ghey/ghay
James Smith
- etymology
bob goodman
- Phat [was Re: gay/ghey/ghay]
Wilson Gray
- Lexical blends
Alan Baragona
- "hot dog"--Douglas Wilson's 1935, 1939 attestations
Gerald Cohen
- "hot dog"--Sam Clements' 1937, 1939 attestations
Gerald Cohen
- Slight Antedatings of "Yippie"
Fred Shapiro
- Bagel "All the Way"; Railroad Fried Rice; NEO/LEO/KEO
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- Back in the Day
Your Name
- Phat
Alan Baragona
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