Query: What's "Shep"? --- was: Re: "Hot enough for you?" (1876, 1878, 1880)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>  In the 1915 item of hash-house lingo in Barry Popik's message below,
> what does "Shep" mean?

"Shep", like "Fido", is a dog name, I think.

So "Fido [and] Shep" = "dogs".

-- Doug Wilson


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