[Ads-l] 23 skidoo, skedaddle, skidoodle

[Ben Zimmer]

"Skidoosh"/"skadoosh" inspired a Boston Globe column of mine back in 2008,
where I talked about the "skidoo"/"skedaddle" precursors:

http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/29/skadoosh/

Follow-ups on Visual Thesaurus and Language Log:

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/skedaddle-scadoodle-skidoo-skadoosh/
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=288

(BTW, in case there was any confusion, Peter Jensen Brown is the nom de
blog of our own Peter Reitan.)

--bgz

On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 7:39 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The excellent "Kung  Fu Panda" (2008) includes the novel  (?) interjection
> "Skidoosh!"
>
> A friend uses it in telling her dog to hurry up. She got it from the movie.
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 6:35 PM Stanton McCandlish <smccandlish at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Interesting detailed piece by Peter Jensen Brown:
> >
> >
> https://esnpc.blogspot.com/2015/02/skedaddle-skidoodle-skidoo-vanishing.html
> >
>

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