My mother's version of it

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>> >
>> >> Gimme some skin, my friend; from In the navy, w & m Don Uaye, Red Mack &
>> >> Gene de Paul. June 17, 1941
>> >
>> > HDAS could beat that by some years, IIRC.
>>
>> Don't know what's in the unpublished "S" files of HDAS, but the
>> earliest I've seen is 1940, from Dan Burley:
>>
>> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0802A&L=ADS-L&P=R4306
>>
>> GDoS has "slip me some skin" from 1939 (in Herbert & Spencer's
>> Jitterbug Jamboree Song Book).
>
> Sorry.  1939 remains the date to beat. I was thinking of something
> entirely different.

Perhaps you were thinking of "slip/give me five"? HDAS has "slip" from
1918, and I found "give" from 1925:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0502D&L=ADS-L&P=R162

--bgz


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