[Ads-l] _Dudine_ : "dudette"

[Wilson Gray]

   1. The Guardian - Volumes 35-36 - Page 232
   https://books.google.com/books?id=39YVAAAAYAAJ
   1884 - ‎Read - ‎More editions
   BY H. H. SCHIVELY. The following is a clipping from the Powelton Avenue
   Beacon, a lively little sheet, published by a Philadelphia congregation :

   SLANG.
    " Have you seen the Pomeroy ? " " Yes. Awful _dudine_." Long pause. "
   Well, I don't know ...

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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