"dungarees"

[James Harbeck]

We didn't use it when I was growing up in Alberta (though my parents
were from the Buffalo area), so it stood out for me when I saw it in
a Dave Berg cartoon in MAD Magazine (in the 1970s). It was clearly a
normal word for Berg and, evidently, for his editors at MAD.

James Harbeck.

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