HELP! I accidentally found a word fossil!

[Jonathan Lighter]

I recommend a preliminary look at my post of Dec. 6, 2009.  (Which is not
to discourage any new reports: written appearances of such terms are so
exceedingly rare before the mid 20th century that anything is likely to be
of some interest.)



JL

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:40 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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