Word: recherche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permits slang to appear in its columns commented thus: "Good slang is 'sock on the jaw' and poor slang is 'economic Neanderthals' both from the collection of General Hugh Johnson. The first is as near to the soil as corned beef & cabbage; the second is recherché. Ninety-nine per cent of the accredited slang inventions are recherche...