too digging

[Jonathan Lighter]

I doubt it, George.  I've never come across this usage before.

  JL



George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:
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HDAS lacks this; if "digging" is taken as = "interesting", then does this expression offer a possible source for the jazz sense of "dig"?

In Georgia, any thing a little uncommon is said to be "too digging."
Commercial Advertiser, August 20, 1817, p. 2, col. 3

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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