hoe-down in HDAS

[Jonathan Lighter]

Since I no longer enjoy royalties, there's no need for you to run out and
purchase a copy of your own - though I used to advise readers to purchase
one for home, one for office, and another for the car.

To answer your question directly, no. Though that is what ye Editor was
thinking at the time.

JL




On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 2/8/2014 11:05 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Holy moo-cow, man!
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> Shouldn't that be "Holy moo-cow, BATman!"?
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> >...
> >HDAS also suggests that "hoedown," n., derives from "hoe it down," to
> dance
> >a particular sort of step.
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> Does HDAS (toi?) take the "particular sort of step", as I've
> wondered/suggested here, back to slave and prison work-gangs hoeing
> in unison with a song, the dance step imitating the striking of the
> hoe on the ground?
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> Joel
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