antedating reinikaboo (1898)

[George Thompson]

also [Google Books full view] Feb. 19, 1898 Publisher's Weekly
REINIKABOO is a new word, current among newspaper men, meaning a statement of
news out of all proportion and almost out of relation to the facts, ...p337

Then how can it have become obsolete?  We need a word like this now more than ever.

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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From: Stephen Goranson <goranson at DUKE.EDU>
Date: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:46 am
Subject: antedating reinikaboo (1898)
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> OED rannygazoo Chiefly U.S. dial. or slang. [Origin unknown.]
>     A prank, trick; horseplay, ?nonsense?. (See also quots. 1901, 1940
> 1901 Reinikaboo
>
> DARE ranikaboo n...a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, racket, or scam
> [1893 Rally-kaboo] 1901 Reinikaboo
>
> The Reinikaboo (News)      The Denver Evening Post (Denver, CO)
> Tuesday, January
> 04, 1898; pg. 4; col D [19th C Newspapers]
>
> The Reinikaboo (News)      The Milwaukee Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) Saturday,
> January 08, 1898; pg. 6; col B
>
> The Word Reinikaboo Washington is Its Birthplace, Newspaperdom Its Stronghold
> (News)
>       The Owyhee Avalanche (Ruby City, ID) Friday, May 06, 1898; Issue
> 38; col C
>
> also [Google Books full view] Feb. 19, 1898 Publisher's Weekly
> REINIKABOO is a new word, current among newspaper men, meaning a
> statement of
> news out of all proportion and almost out of relation to the facts, ...p337
>
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
>
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