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.
>

My thinking was that my 1949 "bitching" was the object of the genitive
"his", and was thus a noun, rather than a case of a verb.
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