[Ads-l] Antedating of "Jiving" (Noun)

[Shapiro, Fred]

jiving, n. (OED 1936)

1933 Afro-American (Baltimore) 1 Apr. 23 (ProQuest)

Brother, when I jive, jiving has been done, jam up. ... I advised him to take an intensive course in jiving instead of going to graduate school this summer.

Fred Shapiro


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