List of words & when they entered American English [from ADS-L list]

[Dave Robertson]

...Note the CJ & related terms in this list...lots of Indian words have entered this language!...Dave

Date:    Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:41:17 -0600
From:    Elaine -HFB- Ashton <elaine at CHAOS.WUSTL.EDU>
Subject: Re: America in So Many Words

Fred Shapiro [fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU] quoth:
*>I am ashamed to admit that I do not own a copy of Barnhart and Metcalf's
*>"America in So Many Words."  I am trying to get hold of their list of
*>"words of the year" for the pre-1900 words (I already have the
*>20th-century ones from the Web).  Can anyone point me to an online source
*>listing the pre-1900 words, or would anyone be able to post the list of
*>pre-1900 words to ADS-L?

1555  canoe
1588  skunk
1602  Indian
1607  turkey
1608 corn
1609 raccoon
1610 opossum
1611 tomahawk
1612 catfish
1613 moose
1614 Manhattan
1615 cunner
1616 New England
1617 mother country
1618 punk
1619 planter
1620 seat
1621 Thanksgiving
1622 parched corn
1623 bluefish
1624 swamp
1625 powwow
1626 breeze
1627 wampumpeag
1628 wigwam
1629 hominy
1630 rattlesnake
1631 patent
1632 clapboard
1633 buffalo
1634 squaw
1635 boss
1636 public school
1640 pull up stakes
1645 plantation
1647 cranberry
1654 pumpkin pie
1660 Pilgrim
1666 bluff
1669 scow
1670 huckleberry
1671 mush
1675 scalp
1676 frontier
1677 tote
1681 land office
1684 backlog
1687 jimsonweed
1688 bald eagle
1689 lengthy
1691 tamale
1695 settler
1696 alumnus, alma mater
1697 apple pie
1698 portage
1701 colonist
1703 cookie
1709 backwoods
1711 jackknife
1712 catnip
1713 classmate
1716 schooner
1721 store
1730 two bits
1732 logger
1733 barbecue
1736 awakening
1738 ten-foot pole
1739 johnnycake
1740 banjo
1742 groundhog
1744 ice cream
1745 covered wagon
1748 buck
1750 bluegrass
1751 chowder
1752 katydid
1753 mileage
1754 Union
1755 warpath
1756 ticket
1757 breechclout
1758 Indian file
1759 valedictorian
1760 gargenia
1761 peace pipe
1762 armonica
1763 caucus
1764 bust
1765 Yankee
1766 levee
1767 bayou
1768 bee
1769 tar and feather
1770 log cabin
1771 Venus's flytrap
1772 totem
1773 prairie
1774 minuteman
1775 on picket
1776 American
1777 Indian summer
1778 lightning bug
1779 cowboy
1780 lynch law
1781 blue laws
1782 belittle
1783 passenger pigeon
1784 poison ivy
1785 bug
1786 dime
1787 abolition
1788 squatter
1789 immigrant
1790 reservation
1791 fishing pole
1792 logrolling
1793 Anglophobia
1794 cavort
1795 progress
1796 stenographer
1797 bogus
1798 veteran
1799 revival
1800 misstep
1801 spook
1802 mammoth
1803 stud
1804 tornado
1805 artery
1806 cocktail
1807 slave driver
1808 rowdy
1809 cookbook
1810 drugstore
1811 White House
1812 gerrymander
1813 airline
1814 keno
1815 cuss
1816 ornery
1817 pioneer
1818 cruller
1819 bunkum
1820 shanty
1821 cure-all
1822 paleface
1823 flunk
1824 you-all
1825 blizzard
1826 pothole
1827 sockdolager
1828 whole hog
1829 Jim Crow
1830 editorial
1831 ranch
1832 bark up the wrong tree
1833 hoosier
1834 goober
1835 loaf
1836 downtown
1837 Christmas tree
1838 know-how
1839 OK
1840 keep the ball rolling
1841 deadhead
1842 suffrage
1844 rodeo
1845 tintinnabulation
1846 Podunk
1847 hobo
1848 grapevine
1849 tenderfoot
1850 prohibition
1851 bloomers
1852 filibuster
1853 cafeteria
1854 peter out
1855 bluejeans
1856 high muckamuck
1858 piker
1859 Dixie
1860 vigilante
1861 caboose
1862 greenback
1863 AWOL
1864 deadline
1865 commuter
1866 nifty
1867 maverick
1868 carpetbagger
1869 showboat
1870 bathtub
1871 boom
1872 jambalaya
1873 Chautauqua
1874 canning
1875 P.D.Q.
1876 moxie
1877 dude
1878 potato chip
1879 jackpot
1880 lipstick
1881 bandwagon
1882 graham cracker
1883 skyscraper
1884 hamburger
1885 hello
1886 fan
1887 sideburns
1888 credit card
1889 Hispanic
1890 Afro-American
1891 country club
1892 sweatshop
1893 midway
1894 cold feet
1895 hot dog
1896 gangster
1897 underprivileged
1898 yellow journalism
1899 cereal
1900 phony

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