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Tony Thorne's Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (1990) claims that it has been adopted by non-native hippies and travellers living in the West Country to refer to anyone who is not approved of.
Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins,
(A slap on the wrist here to William Rose Benét's The Reader's Encyclopedia and Kenneth McLeish's Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide, which respectively give the latter misspellings.)
The play is "Spencer's life reduced to Two Weddings and a Funeral , a quaint and titillating Bloomsbury parallelogram," says the Wall Street Journal 's Donald Lyons.
The great bohemias of history--Murger's and Charles Baudelaire's 19 th -century Paris, Bloomsbury, the French and German Dadaists, the Surrealists, the Beats, the indie rock scene--were flamboyant and self-enthralled.