Goody Two-Shoes (1924)

[Wilson Gray]

How about "firebug" and "jitterbug"? Re the latter, cf. blues verse,
sung by a woman:

I got me a eighteen-year-old _jitterbug_
And they all get jellis when they see us hug
Lookin' at me wit' they faces frown'
I cain' he'p it, if they jes' ain't down

Sorry. Fighting migraine. Best I can do.

-Wilson

On 6/26/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> The distinction is that "bug" used to be a routine synonym for (sports) fan, and sportswriters frequently referred to "the bugs" in the plural.  That doesn't seem to happen anymore.
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>   (Or, "Anymore, that doesn't seem to happen."  Is that correct?)
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>   JL
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> Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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> Seems to me I still hear (or have heard, or could
> hear), "He's a Trivial Pursuit bug"; or "She's a Harry
> Potter bug." Am I archaic? Idiolectal? Idiotic?
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:03:26 -0700
> >From: Dave Wilton
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> >"Bug" is a 19th/early 20th century slang term for fan, esp.
> sports fans. In this case, it means fight fans, but could be
> used more generally.
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> >--Dave Wilton
> > dave at wilton.net
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