gleeking (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Gleeking (spitting from under your tongue) is in the archives from Dec
2004:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0412E&L=ADS-L&D=0&P=32
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Grant Barrett soon wrote about it:

http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/gleek/

with a first citation from 2/3/1988.


A slight antedating:

_San Jose Mercury News_ 6/8/1987 p. 8A col unk (Newsbank)
[also _Rome [GA] News-Tribune_ 6/8/1987, p 2 col 2 (Google News
Archive)]
"gleek -- a form of spitting"


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