"dungarees"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/2/2009 09:46 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>Good heavens! AFAIR I've always known the word "dungarees", possibly before
>I knew them as jeans. (Grew up in the 50s in the NYC suburbs.)

The city boys too knew dungarees, even though they might not have
known suburban dung.  Or perhaps where I grew up, the Bronx, would
have been considered suburban then?

Joel

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