[Ads-l] Antedating of "Boo Bird"

[Shapiro, Fred]

boo bird (OED 1934)

“The officiating of Vandiver and Seidensticker seemed badly off in all four games and the Richmond coliseum was the scene of an almost continual razzberry chorus. All the fans had something adverse to say about the arbiting in all the games and the old ‘boo-bird’ warbled louder than this department has ever heard it this season.” The Rushville {IN} Republican, January 16, 1933 p2 (In a column about basketball)

NOTE: This antedating was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro

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