diggety/diggity dong/dog

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Wow. Barry found some fantastic material for "hot diggety" “hod
diggetty”. Thanks to Barry for sharing this information on his
website.

Thanks also to Ben for sharing a pointer (and finding some excellent cites).

Garson

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
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>>> OED's Word of the day: hot diggety dog 1923.
>>>
>>> ADS Dialect Notes 5.7 (1924) "Exclamations in American English" p. 270:
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>>> Hot:....--Diggety-dong (joy: Penn), --ziggety damn (surp. com.) --dog (joy:
>>> com., approv.: Maine [etc.]
>>
>> Back in '05 I gave some earlier examples with the spelling "hot diggedy dog":
>>
>> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0502D&L=ADS-L&P=R1093
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>> Atlanta Constitution, Nov 16, 1921, p. 8, col. 8
>> Bits of New York Life, by O.O. M'Intyre
>> As Walter Catlett chirps 'Hot-diggedy-dog!'
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>> Atlanta Constitution, Sep 12, 1922, p. 6, col. 4
>> Bits of Paris Life, by O.O. M'Intyre
>> And the Americans responded with "Hot--diggedy--dog" -- a phrase that has
>> been popularized here and amuses the Frenchmen.
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>>
>> The OED entry was updated in Sept. '08 but missed these.
>
> And Barry Popik found a 1906 example of "hod diggetty" in Winsor
> McCay's comic strip "Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend":
>
> http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/hot_diggety_dog/
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> --bgz
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