[Ads-l] 'lardy-dardy' antedate (OED 1861)
James Eric Lawson
jel at NVENTURE.COM
Tue Dec 6 18:48:07 UTC 2022
'lardy-dardy' adj., OEDO 1861 (entry not 'fully' updated, modified
December 2018):
1859 _The Amateur's magazine_ Such absurd palaver, and lardy-dardy talk
as that of his grand mover and seconder. 355
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.11919996&view=1up&seq=365&q1=lardy-dardy
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