[Ads-l] 23-Skidoo

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS found no evidence of "skidoo" prior to ca.1904.

I suspect the phrase came from the vaudeville stage.

JL

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:

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> This seems to be a combination of several plays that originally were
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> hed separately.  For the play that uses "skidoo," the copyright date is
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> John Baker
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> Okay, thanks for the information. It's a piece of uinlikely=20
> folk etymology. No help there.=20
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> However, here is a use of Skidoo in a play dated 1807.=20
> And that's a new edition - perhaps it was also in the older=20
> editions. First published 1759.
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> "The fat's in the fire, right enough. Skidoo for me"
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