Re:       "kicky" antedating

RonButters at AOL.COM RonButters at AOL.COM
Tue Oct 26 02:31:22 UTC 2004


I remember this as queer talk from the 1950s. Bruce Rodgers (QUEENS' 
VERNACULAR, 1972) dates it from the 1940s.

In a message dated 10/25/04 2:07:09 AM, Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL writes:


> From OED
> 3. Providing 'kicks', exciting, lively. N. Amer. colloq
> 
> first cite in OED is 1968.
> 
> From "The Adventures of Bob Hope" comic book, #99, Jun-Jul 1966
> 
> "Me!  Super-Hip!  That Wild Card in the Dull Deck of Destiny!  That Kicky
> Kid in a Cosmos of Human Cubes!"  From the story "Super-Hope Meets
> Super-Hip!" written by Arnold Drake, page 4, panel 5.
> 
> online at:
> http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/closeup.php?image=bobhope9
> 9-transformation.jpg
> 
> 



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