[Ads-l] Antedating of "Squaresville"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Squaresville (OED 1956)

1943 Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia) 2 July 9/2 (Newspapers.com)  To the ickie from Squaresville, who doesn't savvy the jive: Why don't you get your boots laced, get down in the dirty old ditch and dig deep with the reet beat, and then you'll be hep when the hot men feed the cats.

NOTE: This citation is from an Australian newspaper, but the context in the paper makes it clear that American jazz slang was being parroted.

Fred Shapiro

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