[Ads-l] to shanghai

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Bonnie.

JL

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 4:37 PM Bonnie Taylor-Blake <b.taylorblake at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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