[Ads-l] Antedating of "Greaser" (Slur Against Mexicans)

[Shapiro, Fred]

greaser (OED , 2.a., 1846 [1 Aug.])

1846 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 26 June 2 (GenealogyBank)

I saw the chap this morning in front of a Mexican fonda, trying to talk Spanish with a Greaser and endeavoring to convince him that he was a "d—d robber."

Fred Shapiro

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