"fellow" = "A black man"; also "secesh' noun & adj. 1862; and "nub" 1728 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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My wife not only has pinkie fingers (two of them - she isn't polydactyl
. .  .), she has pinkie toes.

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> "nub" 1728
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> What are you talking about? I call it the little finger; I call it the
> pinky. I have NEVER called it the pinky finger.
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> DanG
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> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > A friend of mine
> > with what I'm assuming to be similar nubs on her little fingers -
uh,
> > by "little fingers" I mean what white folk call "pinky fingers," ...
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