Neologism in Against the Day?

[Mark Kohut]

I did visit a library with the latest OED. No " badgirl" exists. I think the OED people should get a note. 
Maybe they'll choose it as Pynchon's eighth, if I remember right? People are astonished re his " shrink" when I tell them. 

Here's something less interesting--maybe--outta Shakespeare. He is given the first citation for "mountaineer" (spelled differently) in THE TEMPEST, 1610. But this must have been a play transcription since the First Folio was not published until 1623, which led with The Tempest. 
It is a throwaway word in The Tempest but in CYMBELINE it is heartily used w thematic meanings a couple-three-four times. And Cymbeline was first performed in 1607-8 they are pretty sure. The map is not the territory. 
 
Lots of pages of use and nuance to mountaineer 
In the OED but not as many as e " rural" , just sayin,
And in recorded use two centuries earlier, not surprisingly. A " rustic" is how they were slurred, shortly thereafter. 

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> On May 26, 2019, at 5:01 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am away from my OED this weekend so I will ask the Plist hive mind: " badgirl" --one word--is used in AtD ( about Lake). How long has it officially existed, --on paper only we know--if it has? 
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> And, somehow badly connected in my mind why has badass --get it now?--as an adjective coalesced as a positive description for a woman? Or, back to the basics, has it? ( major uses I encounter says it is and Google n-gram says it is on the use rise!) what do real dictionaries say? 
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