popcock (1852ff)

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Dec 15 22:12:56 UTC 2012


Wonderful discoveries.

JL

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu>wrote:

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> OED has poppycock from 1852 (with the second quotation from 1864).
> Popcock (pop-cock) may be related to poppycock.
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> Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, (Milwaukee, WI) Saturday, August 07, 1852; col C
> =
>  [19th c. n.]
> ....Our authority says P. stands for Poor Prices, Pierce,...Plunder of
> Publ=
> ic Property,...and Pop-cock generally....
>
> The Daily Scioto Gazette, (Chillicothe, OH) Tuesday, April 05, 1853; Issue
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> 107; col B
> ...Edward Everett, towers above the petting, snarling and snapping of
> popco=
> ck Senators....
>
> Jackson Citizen, page 2 December 28, 1853 Published as:THE AMERICAN
> CITIZEN=
> . Jackson, Michigan
> Headline: A Liquor Trial In Jackson [Am. Hist. N.]
> ...C. Wood, alias "Counsellor Popcock," for the defendants.
>
> The Boston Daily Atlas, (Boston, MA) Saturday, August 16, 1856; Issue 40;
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> ol G
> Popular Sovereignty is better known here by the name of "sovereign
> popcock.=
> "
>
>  Memento Mori;
> Daily Ohio Statesman, published as The Daily Ohio Statesman;  10-28-1856
> vo=
> l: III; issue: 128; p: [2];
> ...the Democracy can bid defiance to legions of Popcock Parsons....
> Columbu=
> s, Ohio
>
> The Sun. a Dose of Cayenne;
> Sun, published as The Pittsfield Sun.;  09-16-1858; vol. LIX; iss. : 3026;
> =
> p. [1]; Pittsfield, Massachusetts
> His pop-cock war speech...
>
> Letter from Fitch Burg;  Letters;
>  Wisconsin Daily Patriot, published as The Wisconsin Daily
> Patriot;10-17-18=
> 60;v. iss. 6;  p.147; [2];  Madison, Wisconsin
> ...he will not vote for Popcock Dwight [elsewhere, "Popcock," Dwight]
>
> [?]Vanity Fair, Dec. 27, 1862, p. 306 col. 2 [GoogleBooks]
> Oh! wal, ef popcock's guntah re=FCle all thre=F6ugh, [?]
>
> The new Northwest, March 29, 1872
> Silly men and silly women, full of conceit and sentimentality, and what is
> =
> familiarly known as popcock....
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> http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022673/1872-03-29/ed-1/seq-1/;wo=
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> distance=3D5&date2=3D1922&ortext=3D&proxtext=3D&phrasetext=3D&andtext=3Dpop=
> cock&dateFilterType=3DyearRange&index=3D0
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> Independent Statesman, (Concord, NH) Thursday, September 08, 1881; pg.
> 392;=
>  Issue 49; col B
> The Post's idea...is all popcock.
>
> Stephen Goranson
> people.duke.edu/~goranson
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