shagging & fucking (once more)

[George Thompson]

>From Jesse Sheidlower

> _Shagging_ is used as a noun here, so while it doesn't
> antedate the 1788 verb (although we now have a 1770 example of
> the verb), it does constitute a whopping 198-year antedating
> of _shagging_ n. in OED2.
>
>

Is this a record?

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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