"Schlimazel" must have been used in print long before Pynchon's V. At least in some yiddish text... On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote: > http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/daily-lexeme-schlimazel/ > > Din't I once learn that there are 7 OED first-use in print citations attributed > to > TRP?...including 'shrink"?