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Word: woofin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Yankee fans were coping this week with a brand-new vernacular. In a pre-game TV interview with Manager Casey Stengel, big, ham-handed Dizzy Dean boomed: "You ain't a-woofin' about that, brother!" The fans also noted, for future reference, that the Arkansas-born announcer conjugates the verb to swing as swing, swanged, swunged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Swing, Swanged, Swunged | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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