nom, nomming, nom nom

[victor steinbok]

This one is not before 2002 (2010), but might be of interest. And it
does not imply gluttony ;-)

http://books.google.com/books?id=K8qzZ7NWsvgC&pg=PA105

VS-)

On 8/6/11, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>> Joseph Salmons wrote:
>> > Check out the discussions from last year's Word of the Year at the
>> > American Dialect Society meeting, where it was discussed at some l
>> > length. I don't know of anything quantitative about its rise, but it's
>> > been fast.
>>
>> Are those discussions recorded? In AS? On-line?
>>
>> I suppose maybe "yum" + "nosh"?
>
> I covered _nom_ in "Among the New Words" (with Charles Carson) in the latest
> edition of American Speech (86:192-214).
>
> http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/vol86/issue2/index.dtl
>
> From the introduction:
>
> "In the main category [of Word of the Year], _app_ beat out another
> three-letter
> word: _nom_, an onomatopoetic form suggesting pleasurable eating, used as an
> interjection, noun or verb. _Nom_ traveled from Sesame Street’s Cookie
> Monster
> (whose voracious noises are often represented as “om nom nom nom”) to the
> online images known as “lolcats,” and on to wider usage thanks in part to
> Twitter. Despite the seeming novelty of _nom_, it joins a well-established
> class of gustatory sound symbolism. The earliest examples catalogued by the
> Oxford English Dictionary derive from Caribbean English: _yam_ (1725),
> _nyam_
> (1790), and _ninyam_ (1826). Of more recent vintage are _yum_ (1878),
> _yummy_
> (1899), _num_ (1899), and _nummy_ (1923)."
>
> Citations are provided for _nom_, _nom nom_, _om nom nom_, _nom nom nom_,
> etc.
> The earliest we found is from 2002:
>
> 2002 June 30 Siobhan Perricone rec.food.cooking (Usenet newsgroup)
> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking/msg/a6a350ac3a7492b9   I
> just
> slather on the butter thickly, and they never last long enough to get soggy.
> OM
> NOM NOM!
>
> --bgz
>
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