the early days of "baloney"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Concerning "got me...boloney," cf. semantically the development (perh.
mainly in the Boston area) of "bullshit" from a n. meaning "nonsense" to an
adj. meaning "crazy."

(For non-academics, "Cf." means "Consider as an interesting coincidence. If
it is interesting. If it is a coincidence.")

JL


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > conceivably even this very one
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