[Ads-l] shade

[Jonathan Lighter]

Chris Cuomo has used this a lot on CNN over, I'd say, the past year or two.

JL

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:03 PM victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You hear "shade" a lot on RuPaul Drag Races.
>
> Another place to look is Twitter - usually posed as "Is that shade?" (Or
> other social media)
>
> VS-l
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 10:35 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > We've discussed "shade" several times on the list. There's an OED3 draft
> > addition to the "shade, n." entry from June 2015 covering the sense.
> >
> > ----
> > U.S. slang (orig. in African-American usage). Contempt, disapproval, or
> > disrespect, esp. when expressed obliquely. Chiefly in _to throw shade_:
> to
> > express contempt or disapproval; often with _at_ or _on_.
> > Originally associated with the drag culture of Harlem, New York City in
> the
> > late 1980s; see quots. 1990, 1997.
> > 1990   Paris is Burning (1991) (transcribed from film)    Shade is I
> don't
> > tell you you're ugly, but I don't have to tell you because you know
> you're
> > ugly and that's shade.
> > 1993   N.Y. Times 4 July ix. 5/5   The Sunday Stylers are the last people
> > I'd expect to throw shade on President Bill's hair pursuits.
> > 1997   Village Voice 12 Aug. 26/1   No one who ever saw Willy Ninja dance
> > in the '80s will forget him feigning to slap on makeup, gaze in a mirror,
> > and =E2=80=98throw shade=E2=80=99 on his rivals.
> > 2005   =E2=80=98K'Wan=E2=80=99 Hoodlum xxxi. 302   I ain't trying to
> throw
> > =
> > shade, shit has
> > just been real hectic.
> > 2012   Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 15 Oct. c5/5   They not talking. Ain't
> > no shade though.
> > 2015   Burlington (Vermont) Free Press (Electronic ed.) 29 Jan. 2
>  Jarvis
> > suggested the actors should be =E2=80=98throwing shade=E2=80=99 at each
> > oth=
> > er via eye rolls
> > and such to set up the increasing animosity.
> > ----
> >
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