"Muckamuck" and English-language dictionaries

[Jeffrey Kopp]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:49:08 -0500, "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU> quoted something from ADS:

>   Look at OED's revised "Mazurka," for example.  That gives you the dates
>in other languages.

"Mazurka"??  The only place I've heard that is in Groucho Marx's "Lydia the Tattooed Lady."  ("For two bits she will do a mazurka in jazz...")  My AHD defines it as a "lively Polish dance."

J.