antedating: "birdboy"

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS has 1942, 1952.

1918 Jeffery Day in Michael Copp, ed.  _Cambridge Poets of the Great War_
(Cambridge: C.U.P., 2001) 208:  Yet every morn we bold bird-boys/ Clamber
into our little buses.

JL

 "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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