"hot stuff" from 1759, antedates 1889? Or too literal?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/16/2006 09:27 AM, Jonathon Green wrote:
>You don't cite the precise source of the cite, but I have one for 1759,
>again from a song ,,, where all the terms are undoubtedly sexual
>double entendres

I don't understand this comment.  I gave both Fischer and Murdoch
precisely, which is as much as I have.  (True, I don't have the
primary, printed, circa 1759 source.  But the OED might cite this
anyway as "c1759 in ... 19xx".)

Have you given your source to the OED?

Joel

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