"I'm good" -- chronology?
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Jan 9 02:35:42 UTC 2014
I'm interested in when "I'm good", expressing
satisfaction with one's state (e.g. of eating or drinking), became common.
The OED has a quotation from 1938, under
"jakealoo", and I think no others with this sense:
>1938 X. Herbert Capricornia xii. 169 Lambkin,
>you're not wounded, are you?..Naow! I'm
>jakerloo. You're what? she demanded, looking
>scared. Jakerloo Mum, jakerloo. Whatnot a
>disease, my darling? Naowthat's French for I'm good-o.
Joel
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