Antedating of "Hoodlum"
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 8 14:11:50 UTC 2006
hoodlum (OED 1871)
1866 _Daily Evening Bulletin_ (San Francisco) 15 Dec. (19th Century U.S.
Newspapers) Lazarus Moses, the alleged Fagan of the Hoodlum Band of young
thieves, was arrested last evening on a charge of receiving stolen goods,
knowing them to have been stolen.
Fred Shapiro
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred R. Shapiro Editor
Associate Librarian for Collections and YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS
Access and Lecturer in Legal Research Yale University Press
Yale Law School ISBN 0300107986
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu http://quotationdictionary.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list