Mediodating of "boody/booty"

[Jonathan Lighter]

But what's *that* mean ?  Is it an Afro-Martian song ?

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Wilson Gray
Subject: Mediodating of "boody/booty"
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HDAS lacks a cite for this between 1928 and 1959

Title of phonograph record:

"The Boodie[sic] Green," written by Myron Bradshaw et al., recorded
by [Myron] "Tiny" Bradshaw and his Band

Released on the "King" record label in 1949

-Wilson Gray




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