[Ads-l] Antedating of "Commie" (Adjective)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Commie, adj. (OED 1945)

1940 Pittsburgh Press 13 Jan. 4/2 (Newspapers.com)

All the commissars need to know anyway, under the Commie system, is that the defeats in Finland have damaged Mr. Stalin's prestige at home and abroad and someone else must be made the goat.

Fred Shapiro

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