[Ads-l] Antedating of "Jinx" (Noun and Verb)

[Shapiro, Fred]

jinx, n. (OED 1911)  1903 San Francisco Chronicle 11 Dec. 4/2 (Newspapers.com)  Jockey C. Kelly thinks that the "jinks" are on him.

jinx, v. (OED 1917)  1904 Los Angeles Daily Times 10 Nov. Part II, Page 3/1 (Newspapers.com)  The team has had so many misfortunes this season and the players have been fined so much by Dugdale and jinksed so much by incompetent managers that started out to win the penant [sic] without knowing how to manage ball players, that there is small wonder the men don't play their heads off to snatch a game when they can.

Fred Shapiro


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