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In spite of the alternate g'dong cited by Wentworth and Flexner, the noun gedunk --as spoken on the U.S.S.
It is not in the slightest way suggested that picking up citations from other works is in any way curious or reprehensible—anyone would be a fool to research any subject without relying on the scholarship that has gone before—but one would have expected the DARE to be found among books like Farmer and Henley's Dictionary of Slang and Its Analogues , Chapman's New Dictionary of Slang , Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang , and the others listed.
Also Went-worth/Flexner and Chapman both cite the term the leather as meaning a kick, but they date the term from 1946, citing a passage from Damon Runyon: “he would give his fallen foe what we called `the leather,' meaning a few boots abaft the ears.
To refer to the publication of the first volume of the HDAS is long-awaited would be to give away no secret, for many linguists have long been aware of Jonathan Lighter's announcement of his project several years ago, and it was Stuart Flexner's coup to grab it for Random House.
Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang provides a citation for the similar form yatata yatata yatata from the play Jim Dandy : A Fat Man in a Famine (1947) by William Saroyan.