Antedating of "Jaywalker" and "Jaywalking"

[Shapiro, Fred]

jaywalker (OED 1917)

1911 _Washington Post_ 7 May M12 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  Kansas City used to consider itself a town of jay walkers.


jaywalking (OED 1919)

1909 _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 7 Apr. 12 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  CHAUFFEURS assert with some bitterness that their "joy riding" would harm nobody if there were not so much jay walking.


Fred Shapiro


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