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The HDAS should serve not only as superb documentation of an aspect of the language too often left to amateurs among whom most professional lexicographers, including me, must be counted but also as an engaging colorful source of the pleasure to be derived from revelation and reminiscence.
On the same grounds, it is incumbent on editors to engage as reviewers of dictionaries lexicographers who are knowledgeable about the genre, not amateurs who occasionally look up one word to see how it is spelt or another to find out what it means.
The various lexicographers I have consulted are quite certain, however, that yadda yadda yadda is not of Yiddish origin.
For example, in lexicographers' frequent reliance on “best authors” as a source, dictionaries draw evidence from men, more frequently published and admired, and not women.
In the case of wowser there is the tantalizing possibility that a conjectural use of the word occurs in 1879 in just the sort of context that would fit this theory and make its subterranean existance a reality: but all we have to go on is w--s , and not many lexicographers would chance their arm on that!
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