Schlimazelled by V.

[Mark Kohut]

I would think you are right.....

And perhaps it is not first use---as 'shrink' is?---but a clear use here?
(I do not even know what dictionary, if any, this use came from)


----- Original Message ----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, December 2, 2010 10:57:27 AM
Subject: Re: Schlimazelled by V.

"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"?