FW: Re: "fiend": in anyone's active vocab?

[Joel S. Berson]

There is, I think, "coffee fiend" in "Barnaby", by Crockett Johnson,
1943.  (Barnaby, Mr. O'Malley, and their ghost friend are
investigating a house supposed to be haunted, and think they've come
upon coffee fiends.  Actually, they are wartime black marketeers,
trafficking in coffee.

Joel

At 11/9/2005 03:09 PM, you wrote:
>---------------------- Information from the mail header
>-----------------------
>Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Poster:       "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
>Subject:      FW:      Re: "fiend": in anyone's active vocab?
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>[letter to editor] John Jerome, _Rolling Stone_. 21 June 1973, p. 3 col
>1.
>"Nark nark.  Who's there?  Justice Department.  Justice <i> who? </i> .
>. . Justice soon as I finish this beer I'm going to go bust some
>dopefeends."
>
>
> > there's also the typically (but not exclusively) ironic or
> > self-conscious "dope fiend"
> >
> >