Antedating of "studmuffin"

[Hugo]

studmuffin (OED 1986)

This example refers to a cat rather than an attractive young man, but then I suppose pet names can be used for pets as well as humans.

1979, George F. Schumm, A Teaching Companion to Lemmon's Beginning Logic

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All the cats, save Joychunks and Studmuffin, used the litter box.
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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jTUmvjt2zm0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=studmuffin&f=false

Hugo

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