[Ads-l] woof one's cookies (was Re: Kavanaugh yearbook)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Once again, *nothing* new here, by the standards of 1970-74, with the
possible exception of "woof" one's cookies.

I conducted interviews and took notes, BTW.

How about "worship the porcelain god" and "drive the big porcelain bus"
(which requires embracing the rim)?

JL

JL

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 2:28 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "flash one's hash"
>
> In the National Lampoon, ca.1972-73. New to me, at the time, but
> according to Haj Ross, p.c., common among frat boys at Penn in the
> early '60's.
>
> Full text of "Dictionary Of Service Slang" - Internet Archive - Unpaginated
> https://archive.org/stream/.../DictionaryOfServiceSlang_djvu.txt
> Compiled by PARK KENDALL
> M. S. MILL CO. INC., Publisher, New York
> COPYRIGHT 1941, 1942, I943, I944, BY M. S. MILL CO., INC.
> flashed his hash .... sea sickness, retching
>
> HDAS: flash _the_ hash, in Grose 1788, and still preferred by, e.g.
> Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., in Mother Night, 1961: "He flashed the hash down
> the stairwell from four stories up."
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:19 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On “woof one’s cookies”, the English OLD does redirect to “toss one’s
> cookies”, but it looks like that’s a guess, not evidence that the idiom has
> been recorded.
> >
> > 2003
> > https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woof%20your%20cookies <
> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woof%20your%20cookies>
> > To vomit, puke, blow lunch, blow chunks or ralph.
> > As we got off the roller-coaster, I took one look at my girlfriend and
> said: "You're going to woof your cookies aren't you." She bent over, and
> did, all over her shoes.
> > by Lawman October 17, 2003
> >
> > https://definithing.com/woof-your-cookies/ <
> https://definithing.com/woof-your-cookies/>
> > to vomit, puke, blow lunch, blow chunks or ralph.
> >
> > https://bookofthrees.com/woof-your-cookies/ <
> https://bookofthrees.com/woof-your-cookies/>
> > Meaning: vomit, puke, barf, hork. For example, “If you eat bananas,
> anchovies and cheese, you’ll woof your cookies.”
> >
> > 1. 1996 (but without the possessive)
> > Orin Hargraves
> > ADS list
> > http://www.americandialect.org/americandialectarchives/oct96448.html <
> http://www.americandialect.org/americandialectarchives/oct96448.html>
> >
> > ——
> > Blow chunks. Woof cookies. Ralph. Worship the porcelain altar. Get the
> idea?
> > ——
> >
> > 2. 2000
> > The Jacket
> > Charles Elgee
> > https://bit.ly/2zxKgx9 <https://bit.ly/2zxKgx9>
> >
> > ——
> > He woofed his cookies in the washroom.”
> > ——
> >
> > 3. 2003
> > Surviving Aggressive People: Practical Violence Prevention Skills for
> the Workplace and the Street
> > Shawn T. Smith
> > https://bit.ly/2N54B0z <https://bit.ly/2N54B0z>
> >
> > ——
> > “Well,” Charlie began hesitatingly. “It started when my dog woofed his
> cookies all over the carpet this morning.
> > ——
> >
> > 4. 2008
> > The Golden Sandals
> > Greg Baud
> > https://bit.ly/2zxTAkE <https://bit.ly/2zxTAkE>
> >
> > ——
> > “Just Animal Crackers, Daddy."
> > “Well, now he’s woofed his cookies."
> > ——
> >
> > Benjamin Barrett
> > Formerly of Seattle, WA
> >
> > > On 26 Sep 2018, at 17:25, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yup. To "ralph" (occasionally "rowf") was also common at NYU in 1970.
> > >
> > > But I never knew of a club.
> > >
> > > There were various synonyms, such as to "Buick" (or to "sell a
> Buick"), to
> > > "toss your cookies," and to "call Ralph."
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 7:25 PM Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >>> On Sep 26, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> from my undergrad years, 1958-62: "to ralph" was a (very) common
> > >> alternative to "to barf", both sound-symbolic / echoic / imitative
> for 'to
> > >> vomit' (and both attested from the 1960s...)
> > >>
> > >> addendum: my experience was not just from 1958-62, but from the Ivy
> League
> > >> -- usage from guys who seem to have brought the vocabulary with them
> from
> > >> (mostly Eastern) prep schools.
> > >>
> > >> arnold
> > >>
> >
> >
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