Wizard of Oz and the dictionary (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> I did a brief search for Munchkins and several of the OED definitions
> can be antedated by at least a decade (first mentions range from 1974
> and 1981)--and some uses appear to be missing. For A. n. 1.
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> > A small and endearing person; /esp./ a child. Also used as a term of
> > endearment.
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9/21/1930 Oakland Tribune p 63 (fiction section p 2) col 1.
Newspaperarchive.com

" "Well," she said to Margaret, "what happened to the poor Munchkin
boy?" "

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