[Ads-l] 'jarhead' (a soldier) antedatings

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Back in 2010 JL found some citations starting in 1926 in which members
of the U.S. Army football team were called jarheads (the team's mascot
was a mule)

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-February/096857.html

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 12:41 AM James Eric Lawson <jel at nventure.com> wrote:
>
> OEDO senses 2a ("member of the United States Army") 1931, and 2b
> ("member of the United States Marine Corps) 1944. Green ("a US
> Marine") 1943. ADS-L, Lighter, 1918 ("Artilleryman"), 1942
> (soldier).
>
> 1930  *Telling The Marines! [ad]* _The Leatherneck_ 13/6 33 No
> wonder the little dame is giving her Marine the works!  No female
> loves a briar that smells like a Chinese fish market.  Now if this
> jar-head had used Sir Walter Raleigh in his pipe, you’d see the
> skirt with her arms around our hero, while the fragrant smoke
> wafted its way skyward.
>
>
> https://archive.org/details/sim_leatherneck_1930-06_13_6/page/n34/mode/1up?q=%22jar-head%22
>
> 1932  *Army “Slanguage”* _Recruiting news_ 6–7  An Army mule is a
> "jar head ” or a Missouri Mustang. Soldiers of a machine gun
> company are also “jar heads” to their buddies but - when you call
> ’em that, stranger, smile!
>
>
> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112099968973&view=page&seq=184&q1=jar-head
>
> --
> James Eric Lawson
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