[Ads-l] to shanghai

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

As per usual, Jon, that's great stuff.

Thanks!

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 11:30 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

1871: OED
>
> 1853 Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.) (Jun. 11) 3: In San Francisco,
> when a man has drank [sic] drugged liquor and been robbed, they say he has
> been "Shanghaied."
>
> 1858 Muscatine [Ia.] Weekly Journal (July 230 4: "I don't wish I was never
> married," said a man who was slightly shanghaied at home, "but I must
> confess I envy a bachelor."   [A rather different nuance; see 1860. -JL]
>
> 1859 Brooklyn Daily Eagle (July 16) 2: When he got tight, he fell into bad
> company, and got 'Shanghaied' on board the San Jacinto.
>
> 1860 Daily Post (Liverpool, Eng.) (March 28) 7: He told my boy that he was
> 'Shanghaied' on board. That means he was entrapped on board.
>
> 1862 Manchester [Eng.] Weekly Times (May 24) (Supp.) 266: What's
> shanghaying? ...It's crimping a man when he's dead drunk or hocussed with
> laudanum. The landlord draws his first month's pay in advance, of course,
> for bringing a hand aboard.
>
> Etc., etc. Also spelled "shanghae."
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
>

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