[Ads-l] Antedating of "toodle-oo"

[Peter Reitan]

The British Newspaper Archives (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) have numerous examples dating to as early as 1899.
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For example: 

Blackburn Standard (Lancashire), May 27, 1899, page 11:
"That's all right. But she's in your way, too.  Ole man. The other laughs shamefacedly.  Well, I s'pose we must say toodle-oo."

The second earliest example is from 1901, when it was apparently still novel:

Yorkshire Evening Post, May 20, 1901, page 3.
"Mr. G. . .. Sims, who has been visiting Birmingham, comments on the fact that several couples at parting say, Well, toodle-oo, instead of the usual . . ."


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> toodle-oo, int.
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> OED: 1907
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> The Strand Magazine, Vol. xxviii, No. 165, September 1904, p. 329,
> 
> George R. Sims, "Off The Track in London", "V.--Round Hackney Wick"
> 
> =3D=3D=3D
> In one of the country gardens two gaily-dressed young coster girls are
> sitting and chatting with the cottager and his wife. They sit among
> the flowers and look for all the world like young London lasses who
> have come to the village to astonish the country folks with their town
> finery. When they rise and bid the old folks good-bye, and coming
> through the little wicket stand for a moment at the wooden palings to
> say =E2=80=9CToodle-oo=E2=80=9D in the cheeriest of Cockney accents, we are=
>  at first
> astonished. For a moment my colleague and I had imagined we were in a
> rural hamlet and in the heart of green England.
> =3D=3D=3D
> 
> https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly
> 
> There's an illustration of the scene:
> 
> https://archive.org/stream/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandM=
> agazine1904bVol.XxviiiJul-dec#page/n251/mode/1up
> 
> Hugo
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