bogart (verb) antedated (?) to 1965

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 22, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:

> Ebony v. 20 no. 5, March 1965, page 98:
>
> Youths Compile Slang Book to Develop Writing Skills
> [Chicago]
> .... Bogart: to muscle through— as in "Dig up, let's grab a boss broad and bogart our way into a boss jam."....
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=_-ADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA98&dq=%22and+bogart%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=g8bVUJO7OZDg8ASh44HoCw&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22and%20bogart%22&f=false
>
Proving the case on denominal verbs made by Eve and Herb Clark in their 1979 Language paper, that such verbs can take on nonce meanings recoverable in a particular context based on properties of the noun extension (or known attributes of the name-bearer, in the case of proper nouns).  Anyone hearing Little Feat's lyrics "Don't bogart that joint, my friend/Pass it over to me" would have been unlikely to recover a 'muscle through' sense.  So I agree with the (?) in the subject line.

LH

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