[Ads-l] Antedating of nabocklish, int.

[Hugo]

Today's OED WOTD:

nabocklish (OED: 1825) [‘Never mind!’, ‘Leave it alone!’]

The Patriot's Vocal Miscellany; or A Collection of Loyal Songs (1804), page
73, "Paddy The Grinder":

[Begin]
Of the fam'd Bonaparte did you hear,
He kicks all the world behind him ;
He's coming--Nabocklish, my dear,
'Tis twenty to one but we grind him.
[End]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s3NbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA73&dq=nabocklish

Hugo

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