[Ads-l] "soak" antedating

[Jonathan Lighter]

'To put in pawn.' OED:1882.

1861, in Morgan Wolfe Merrick _From Desert to Bayou_ (El Paso: Texas
Western Press, 1991) 8: Privat Whight soaked his bunky's boots for a bottle
of whisky.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org