a little in for't

[George Thompson]

Here we have an antedating to HDAS of one of the innumerable terms
from drunkenness our language requires.
        On Monday morning last, some of the Seamen belonging to the
Essex frigate, paraded the streets, a little in for't, singing the new
song about the Good Ship CONSTITUTION. ***  New-York Gazette & General
Adavertiser, July 28, 1802, p. 3, col. 1

HDAS has 1811, from an English source, 1856 as the earliest from the
U. S.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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