Word: loafer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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chowder probably came to us from the island of Jersey through our Marblehead fishermen-corrupted from the French chaudiere, while our intercourse with the Dutch settlers of the New Netherlands is recorded in the phrase span of horses. From the Germans we got the word loaf and loafer. From the Spanish Mexicans vamose. Such examples might be multiplied without number...