[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bronx Cheer"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Last March, on this list, we (i.e. Bonnie Taylor-Blake) pushed this term back to September 1921:

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2024-March/165128.html

Jesse Sheidlower

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 05:25:57PM -0400, Ben Yagoda wrote:
> OED, 1929.
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> New York Tines, June 6, 1924: "The crowd was inclined to wax sarcastic over the brave but inept efforts of the Giants. Several times a Bronx cheer was indulged in.”
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