January 16, 2007, 07:56
wordnerd Help the OED folks
The OED folks have published a
list of terms for which they're seeking further verification or antedating. On checking a few, I find that good antedates can be found simply from
Googles News-Archive , selecting appropriate dates.
Let's help the OED folks by checking through these and giving them some good cites. (Don't worry if the cite you find is to a paid-subscription-only source. No doubt OED can get into that source.)
For convenience, here is the OED's list. For each term, OED explains its question
here , and you'll want to check that out before researching the term.
bananas (1968-70)* . . . . . . . . . . . . . mucky pup (1984) Bloody Mary (1956)* . . . . . . . . . . . . . one sandwich short (1993) bonkers (1957)* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plonker (1966) bung (1958)* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pole dance (1992) daft/mad as a brush (1945) . . . . . . . prat (1968)* dog and bone (1961) . . . . . . . . . . . . regime change (1990) dogging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . round robin dog's bollocks (1989) . . . . . . . . . . . . shaggy dog story (1946)* domestic (1963) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . shell-suit (1989) duh brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sick puppy flip-flop (1970) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . spiv (1934)* glamour model (1981) . . . . . . . . . . . stiletto (1959) Glasgow kiss (1987) . . . . . . . . . . . . . take the mickey (1948)* Gordon Bennett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tosser (1977) hoodie (1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . trainer (1978) identity theft (1991) . . . . . . . . . . . . . twoc (1990) Jack the Lad (1981)* . . . . . . . . . . . . . wally (1969)* kinky (1959) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . wazzock (1984)* loo (1940)* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . whoopsie (1973) marital aid (1976) . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . wolf-whistle (1952)
This message has been edited. Last edited by: wordnerd , January 16, 2007 08:18 January 16, 2007, 08:11
arnie Bob posted about this in 'Questions and Answers About Words' back on 3 January. See
https://wordcraft.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/932607094/m/3221093224 So did I, but I deleted my post when I discovered Bob had started his thread before me.
I'll leave this thread here, but close it to new posts so that we don't have two threads running concurrently.
January 16, 2007, 08:14
wordnerd Oops! I'll add a cross-link there.