antedating reinikaboo (1898)

[Joel S. Berson]

Send it to Colbert.

At 9/29/2007 10:37 AM, you wrote:
>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.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Stephen Goranson <goranson at DUKE.EDU>
>Date: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:46 am
>Subject: antedating reinikaboo (1898)
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>
> > 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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