"nimble-wimble" was: Re: to roger

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

    Is Jonathan Green's citation below, which includes "nimble-wimble", the earliest attestation of a word reduplicated by a "w"? Cf. in this regard "palsy-walsy," "snookum-wookums," "eentsy-weentsy."  Also, btw, how did "roger" get its anatomical sense?
 
Gerald Cohen

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>From Jonathon Green,  Sat 3/17/2007 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: to roger

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1653 Urquhart _Gargantua & Pantagruel_ (1927) vol. I bk. I 44: And some
of the other women would give these names, my Roger, my cockatoo, my
nimble-wimble, bush-beater, claw-buttock, evesdropper, pick-lock,
pioneer, bully-ruffin, smell-smock, trouble-gusset, my lusty live sausage.

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