[Ads-l] Antedating of "Smarmy"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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The OED's first use for "smarmy" is dated 1924,  Ben Yagoda's excellent new book "Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English" discusses various antedatings at pages 24-25/

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