[Ads-l] "s'goes"?

[James Eric Lawson]

Perhaps 'squoze', in the sense of "pressured, disgruntled". OEDO 
"dialect preterite and past participle 1800s–" of 'squeeze'.

On 8/21/23 10:20, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> A friend asked me about a term that his mother (New Yorker, Jewish, born early 1930s) used,
> pronounced "s'goes", and meaning 'to displease', as in "that s'goes me".
> 
> I can't imagine what actual word/expression that pronunciation is supposed to represent. Any ideas?
> 
> Jesse Sheidlower
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