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Re: World Wide Words


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Posted by Mike Dennis on April 29, 2015 at 22:38:37 user MTD.

In Reply to: Re: World Wide Words posted by Mike Field on April 29, 2015 at 18:46:42:

A quick look in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (despite the Internet I still use paper reference books!) gives an origin of 1866 in the USA but where from unknown, but originally used to describe an inept soldier or marine etc.


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