[Ads-l] Antedating of "Jinx"

[Peter Reitan]

Jinks as a bad luck bringer, 1902.

San Francisco Call, April 27, 1902, page 30.

[Begin Excerpt] In the eighth he seemed to suddenly become possessed of the jinks, the rattles and the charley-horse, or all three combined.  He made two wild pitches and an inexcusable error . . . . [End Excerpt]



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jinx (OED 1911, HDAS 1908)

1907 _San Francisco Call_ 1 Jan. 16/1 (Newspapers.com)  I stood with Pardee=
.  That put the jinx on me.

Fred Shapiro


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