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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.
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.
(Those who think of California as a paragon of avant-garde thought may need reminding that the school-marms there succeeded in banning the sale of the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, in the 1970s, by which time one might have thought that their moral fiber would have caught up with their professed modernity.)
Other linguists who have taken on the chalenge of doing so include Jonathan Green, Hotten, Grose, William and Mary Morris, Wentworth and Flexner, and Eric Partridge, who published the first edition of his enormous Dictionary of Slag and Unconvential English in 1937.
Only a third of the terms have found their way into The Dictionary of American Slang , compiled and edited by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1967) or Robert Chapman's New Dictionary of American Slang (Harper & Row, 1986).