Still Further Antedating of "Hillbilly"
Shapiro, Fred
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Jun 9 02:30:14 UTC 2014
It has been brought to my attention that this citation had already been posted to ADS-L by the great Bonnie Taylor-Blake.
Fred Shapiro
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Subject: Still Further Antedating of "Hillbilly"
hillbilly (OED 1900)
1881 _Cincinnati Enquirer_ 18 Oct. 2/1 (Newspapers.com) Nicholasville, Kentucky. ... This has been Court-day, and a quiet one, until about dark, when ten or fifteen roughs, known locally as "Hill Billies," undertook to take the city.
Fred Shapiro
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