March 2025 Archives by thread
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Messages: 186
- [Ads-l] Possible Earlier Evidence of the Word "Jazz" in New Orleans
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] another possible QOTY, sadly
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Word: vibecoding, vibe coding
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Proverb Origin: Revenge Is a Dish Best Eaten Cold
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Fire Weather Warning
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Loony" (Adjective)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] New York Times Mention
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "this, that, and the other"
Steven Losie
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "whirlybird"
Steven Losie
- [Ads-l] Whole Nine Yards (1855)
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] lie
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] fouch; twizpipe
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] transgenic mice
Tom Zurinskas
- [Ads-l] "Historically Black College" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "AIDS"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Square" (Slang Term)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Fw: Square
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "defend [NP]" to mean "defend against [NP]", inverting the meaning
Stanton McCandlish
- [Ads-l] The newest *pocalypse
Geoffrey Nathan
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "DIg" (Jazz Slang)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Student query about French slang
Ben Yagoda
- [Ads-l] Big back
Kelly Wright
- [Ads-l] Fw: ["EXLIBRIS-L"] Legman=?Windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=unpublished Dictionary of Slang
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Little Green Man" in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Journalist query about children's lingo / teenage slang
Cohen, Gerald L.
- [Ads-l] Possible Further Antedating of "Square" (Slang Term)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Word Up"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Soul Music"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Soul Food"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Square," Adj. (Slang Term)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Yet Further Antedating of "Square" (Slang Term), Noun and Adjective
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Eephus" origin -- Hebrew "efes"? Yiddish "eppis"?
Nancy Friedman
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rhyming Slang"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hipster"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Skank"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] squad bay
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fragging" and "Frag"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] antedating "gook"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] "manner" is now a verb
George Thompson
- [Ads-l] antedating skag/ scag
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] antedating "tin can"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Reggae" (Music)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rocksteady"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "'Fro"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Rastafarian"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "...now let him enforce it..."
Stephen Goranson
- [Ads-l] Latest QOTY
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] antedating trans. "disappear,"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gerrymander"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Gerrymander" (Verb)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] bucket brigade
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Blues" (Musical Genre)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Backstop" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bad Hop"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ballpark" (Adjective)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Base Hit"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Base Runner"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Base Stealer" n
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Batboy"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Battery" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big League"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Leaguer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Black Sox" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bleacher" (Seating Area in Sports Arena)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boo Bird"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Bronx CHeer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating and Semantic Suggestion for "Bullpen" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Center Fielder"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Changeup" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cleanup" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Complete Game" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Cycle" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Extra Inning" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fan" (Verb, Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Fielder's Choice"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Forkball"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Grand Slam" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hall of Famer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Hit and Run"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Home Game"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Home Plate"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Home Team"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jockstrap"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Knuckleball"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Knuckler"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Line Drive"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Lou Gehrig's Disease"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Magic Number" (Baseball)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Minor League"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Minor Leaguer"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "No-Hit" (Adj.)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "On-Base Percentage"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Perfect Game"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Pinch Hitter"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Right Fielder"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Ruthian"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] antedating "yahoo!"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] rebel yell and yeehaw
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sacrifice Fly" "Screwball" "Shutout" "Slugger"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Subway Series" "Texas leaguer" "Triple Play" "Unearned Run"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] "Winning Streak" Not in OED
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "First Responder"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Great Antedating of "Tex Mex" by Barry Popik
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Sex Kitten"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Syntactic blend: "If we just blow this under the rug"
Cohen, Gerald L.
- [Ads-l] "scuttlebutt"
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Wordplay: appstinence = app + abstinence
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Quip: It's not the fall that kills (hurts) you; it's the sudden stop at the end
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Origins of the Term "Blues"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Subverting the trigger warning
ADSGarson O'Toole
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Checks and Balances"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Negress"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Boom Box"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] put warheads on foreheads
Jonathan Lighter
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Vibe"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Crack Whore"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jive Ass" (Noun)
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] Antedating of "Jive Talk"
Shapiro, Fred
- [Ads-l] catbird seat (1910)
Ben Zimmer
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