Word: spying
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...originated, I believe, among the darkies of the South and the correct phrasing-without dialect-is "spirit and image." It was originally used in speaking of some person whose father or mother had passed on-and the colored folks would say-"the very spi't an' image of his daddy...