Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero-c!nadel From: mlm@cs.brown.edu (Moises Lejter) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: synonyms Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 22:43:10 GMT References: <1991May24.220315.10248@aero.org> Sender: uunet!brunix!news@ncar.UCAR.EDU Reply-To: mlm@cs.brown.edu Organization: Department of Computer Science, Brown University Lines: 19 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Status: R Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org I looked up "gold-digger" in "Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English", edited by Paul Beale. This is the entry (with abbreviations expanded): gold-digger. A female attaching herself to a man for (her) self and pelf: US (circa 1925); anglicised by 1930. Derived from the literal Standard English sense. -- 2. Also "gold-digging", the corresponding (not too) abstract noun. It does not appear in my edition of the OED. Moises P.S> The "...Dictionary of Slang..." is published by Macmillan, 1989 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet/CSnet: mlm@cs.brown.edu BITNET: mlm@browncs.BITNET UUCP: ...!uunet!cs.brown.edu!mlm Phone: (401)863-7664 USmail: Moises Lejter, Box 1910 Brown University, Providence RI 02912