[Ads-l] 23-Skidoo

[Baker, John]

This seems to be a combination of several plays that originally were published separately.  For the play that uses "skidoo," the copyright date is 1909.


John Baker


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Subject: 23-Skidoo

Okay, thanks for the information. It's a piece of uinlikely 
folk etymology. No help there. 

However, here is a use of Skidoo in a play dated 1807. 
And that's a new edition - perhaps it was also in the older 
editions. First published 1759.

"The fat's in the fire, right enough. Skidoo for me"

http://tinyurl.com/zbr3n3x

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