[Ads-l] Antedating of "cheeky chappie"

[Hugo]

Added to the OED in this quarter's update, dated 1932.

1909 August 17, T. O. B., “In and Around Sydney”, in Cootamundra
Herald[1], Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia, retrieved 15
September 2016, page 2:

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One reply given to the foregoing
question was that "men do not go
to church because they do not want
to, and, in spite of Mr. Wade, this is
still a partly free country." After
firing this little squib off, the per-
petrator of it must have felt relieved.
He is the cheerful, cheeky chappie
whom Evangelist Alexander would
have fired at with his own dum-dum
bullet, '"Two-Timothy-two-fifteen."
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[1] http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/144033012?searchTerm=%22cheeky+chappie%22

Hugo

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