"harsh", verb, "to speak unkindly"?; not in OED

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Fri Aug 1 19:08:33 UTC 2014


On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 03:02:35PM -0400, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> "harsh", verb, "to speak unkindly"?; not in OED.

HDAS and GDoS have examples of _harsh (on)_ in relevant senses from the
late 1980s, in college slang sources.

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