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- From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
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- Subject: General Hooker and whores (FAQ)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.234537.8199@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 23:45:37 GMT
- References: <28087@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <d3aC02hi2f5g01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1992Dec27.003545.17953@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- >FAQ writes:
- >>Tb.US Civil War Gen. Hooker is the source for a common term for streetwalkers.
-
- Probably F, unless you have a citation. The Oxford English Dictionary
- has a quotation from 1845 using the term. Not-yet-general Hooker would
- have been about 30 years old at the time. Was he *such* a rake that his
- name would have been a byword for "whore" in Norfolk (where the quotation
- is from) even though he was born in Massachusetts and lived in California?
- *Could* have happened, but...
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