[Ads-l] Antedating of "Switch Hitter"

[Laurence Horn]

I was pleasantly surprised to see that the OED entry for "switch-hitter"
includes a cite for the meaning 'a bisexual' from as early as 1960
(Wentworth & Flexner's lexicon). I hadn't realized it was around that long.


LH

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 3:05 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

>
> switch hitter (OED 1948)
>
> 1919 New York Herald​ 9 Mar. section 2, page 6, column 7 (Newspapers.com)
> He ... is a switch htter, batting left or right, depending on the opposing
> pitcher.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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