Antedatings of "canoodle"

[Hugo]

canoodle (OED 1864 (canoodling (1859))

First in a song, "Paddy Loves A Shamrock", published in The Universal Songster, or, Museum
 of Mirth (1826, 1828, 1829, 1832, 1834, and also in 1830's The Shamrock: A Collection of
 Irish Songs):
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Together, in a lump,
We the universe would thump,
Should they venture to canoodle
Us, every body knows.
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The next is in Currer Lyle: Or, The Stage in Romance, and the Stage in Reality by Louise
Reeder (1856, 1857):
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Oh, you miserable, pettifoggin', canoodlin', deceivin', good-for-nothin' creetur!"
shrieked forth Pugs by, as with extended arms she advanced, to fling herself upon his
bosom.
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This is the former transitive sense as defined in the OED, to persuade by deception.
Pettifogging is concerned with legal chicanery and petty quibbling.

Links to sources:
http://english.stackexchange.com/a/112541/9001

Hugo

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