antedating bitching (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> That's a fair assessment, although I failed to see the difference with
> your 1949 citation... I'll check OED again and a couple of other
> citations I pulled up but ignored in favor of these.

There may be no difference at all -- like I said, I'm confused.

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