"dudo", 1840, meaning ???

[Charles C Doyle]

Then there is the not-very-uncommon "shortgevity."  In most such constructions (but not necessarily in "slangevity"), the "g" /d3/ has migrated from the historical "long-" to the "-[a]evity" part.  So we have a [pseudo]morpheme "-gevity."

--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Arnold Zwicky [zwicky at STANFORD.EDU]
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 10:51 AM

On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Laurence Horn wrote, about "duds":

> --a particularly impressive word, showing up in 15th and 16th c.
> slang compendia and having remained as a slang word ever since.
> Can't think of any rival to its status for slangevity.

noted with pleasure on my blog, here:

http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/slangevity/

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