[Ads-l] kibosh, antedating of Dickens's use (1835)

[dave@wilton.net]

The OED has 1836 for Dickens's use of "put the kibosh on" in "Seven Dials," one of the Sketches by Boz. But this is from an 1836 collection of the sketches.
 
It appears a year earlier in:
 
Dickens, Charles (pseud. Boz). “Scenes and Characters.—No. 1. Seven Dials.” Bells Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, 27 September 1835, 1/1. NewspaperArchive.com.
 
“'What do you mean by hussies?' interrupts a champion of the other party, who has evinced a strong inclination throughout to get up a branch fight on her own account. ('Hoo-roa,' ejaculates a pot-boy in a parenthesis, 'put the kye-bosh on her Mary.')"
 
Note the spelling is "kye-bosh," not the "kye-bosk" that appears in some later editions.
 
 
 
 

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