[Ads-l] Antedating of "Hipster"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> No, not "Decitionary," which does exhibit a certain je ne sais qua.
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> JL

Ah, you vere perhaps thinking of "Decisionary"?
--Dr. Freud
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> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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>> Which is why it isn't in HDAS I (earliest: 1940), which drew on the
>> _Hepster's Decitionary_.
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>> JL
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>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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>>>> hipster (OED 1941)
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>>>> 1938 _New York Amsterdam News_ 3 Dec. 1 (ProQuest Historical
>> Newspapers)
>>>> To take an expression from Cab Calloway's Hipster's dictionary, "the
>> big
>>> show
>>>> will be a 'killer-diller'."
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>>> Nice find! Interestingly, they got the title wrong -- it was _Cab
>>> Calloway's Cat-alogue: A 'Hepster's' Dictionary_. Calloway
>>> consistently used "hepster" and not "hipster".
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