[Ads-l] Fwd: Antedating of "Bogart"

[Laurence Horn]

Seems discontinuous from the sense I remember from my misspent youth, ever since

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ifjIAoleI&t=25s

—even if it’s the same Bogey alluded to in both. (Cf. Eve Clark and Herb Clark (1979), “When Nouns Surface as Verbs”.)

LH

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> From: ADSGarson O'Toole <00001aa1be50b751-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Antedating of "Bogart"
> Date: August 5, 2025 at 10:19:30 PM EDT
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> 
> This citation for "bogarted" seems to fit the sense of "To force,
> coerce; to bully, intimidate."
> 
> Date: June 13, 1953
> Newspaper: Citizen News
> Newspaper Location: Hollywood, California
> Article: For the Record
> Author: John Hall
> Quote Page 6, Column 1 and 2
> Database: Newspapers.com
> https://www.newspapers.com/image/683825409/?match=1&terms=%20bogarted
> 
> [Begin excerpt]
> At this point, for no special reason at all, I was beginning to lose
> my confidence.
> "Gimme that form," I Bogarted at my cohorts as I knocked them flat on
> the fancy Club House floor.
> You get that way after a few races.
> [End excerpt]
> 
> Garson
> 
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM Shapiro, Fred
> <00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> bogart (OED 1965)
>> 
>> 1959 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 15 Feb. Teen section 5/4 (Newspapers.com)
>> 
>> Boys who break into lines or take charge without permission are said to be "bogarting."
>> 
>> Fred Shapiro
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