[Ads-l] Antedating of "Scuzzy"
Shapiro, Fred
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu Aug 24 16:45:28 UTC 2017
scuzzy (OED 1969)
1966 _The Paper_ 28 Mar. 1/4 (Independent Voices) The girl who met us at the door had ... a black jersey (this uniform, and its levis-sweater undress version, is the scuzzy equivalent of the sorority girl syndrome).
Fred Shapiro
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