[Ads-l] Antedating of "Whiff" (Baseball)

[Shapiro, Fred]

whiff, v. (OED, 6.a., 1913)

1881 New York Herald 11 Aug. in Edward J. Nichols Historical Dictionary of American Slang 86 (1939)

Fred Shapiro

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