Bunny hug (dance?) (1902)

[Wilson Gray]

That's a load off my mind. I knew that there was a dance with the
relevant name, but I kept thinking "bunny _hop_," though I knew that
that was a dance from the 'Fifties.

-Wilson

On 9/14/07, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
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> Here is a little book readable in full via Google Books:
>
> Wallace Irwin, _The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum_ (Elder and Shepard,
> San Francisco, 1902).
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> It is full of slang (deliberately). The pages aren't numbered, but
> under "XIV" we have:
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> <<
>
> O MOMMER! wasn't Mame a looty toot
> Last night when at the Rainbow Social Club
> She did the bunny hug with every scrub
>  From Hogan's Alley to the Dutchman's Boot,
> ....
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>  >>
>
> My poor-man's OED has "bunny hug" from 1912.
>
> -- Doug Wilson
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