Skilligimink

[Sam Clements]

Age 60, grew up in Virginia, lived in Ohio since 1970.  Never encountered
the word(skinnamarinkidink) in any form until my son and I watched the
"Elephant Show" on tv, late 1980's, early 1990's.  Sharon, Lois and Bram.

sc


----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Skilligimink


> At 3:07 PM -0500 3/10/05, Joanne M. Despres wrote:
>>A North (New) Jersey resident of my acquaintance used say
>>something like "Skinny bolink."  I found this variant listed in a
>>collection of "Brooklynisms" at
>>http://www.lampos.com/brooklyn.htm.
>>
>>Joanne
>>
>>On 10 Mar 2005, at 11:43, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>
>>>  "Skinnymalink" was my grandmother's form. She said it frequently.
>>>
>>  > JL
>>>
> strange.  Neither my wife (age 61, grew up in Connecticut) nor my
> daughter (age 20) have ever heard of any of these variants, but it
> was definitely in my parents' vocabulary ("__ is a real
> skinnymarink", I can remember my mother saying), NYC, early-mid 50's.
> Urban slang?
>
> L
>