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

[Shapiro, Fred]

It just goes to show how I am constantly thinking of Jonathan Lighter's great dictionary.  Or maybe when I post 24 antedatings of baseball terms I get a little groggy.

Fred Shapiro


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Subject: Re: Antedating of "Whiff" (Baseball)

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 3:25 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> whiff, v. (OED, 6.a., 1913)
>
> 1881 New York Herald 11 Aug. in Edward J. Nichols Historical Dictionary of
> American Slang 86 (1939)
>

Assuming Fred meant to type _An Historical Dictionary of Baseball
Terminology_ (HDBT, not HDAS).

--bgz

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