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Is there a noun use that would help solidify this etymology being here, instead of at jones? ... Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary ... Jump to: navigation, search...
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Jonesing? William Safire's On Language column this past weekend concerned the etymology of Jonesing, with a side of Zeta-Jonesing. Safire didn't do his usually thorough job on this one, attributing the phrase to 1960's heroin addiction based on the Dictionary of American Slang.
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Daily explanation about new words, word origins, slang expressions, etc. from Jesse Sheidlower, a senior editor in Random House's Reference Division. Send in your etymology questions or browse the word archive. ... I was reading something about English last names, ... Names derived from a family job,
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I can't find any evidence for my quaint folk etymology, though, so I imagine the word may have a more pedestrian origin (a roll, or list, of blogs; as in "calling the roll"). As always in this climate, punning abounds.
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www.mediajunkie.com/2002/08/02.html
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Etymology: Latin imminent-, imminens, present participle of imminEre to project, threaten, from in- + -minEre (akin to Latin mont-, mons mountain) -- more at MOUNT; Date: 1528; : ready to take place; especially : hanging threateningly over one's head (was in imminent danger of being run over);
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I wonder if the etymology of this (new) expression has something to do with the idea of a meter (like something showing dBs) rocketing so high so quickly that it flies off its "hook"? That's just a guess. If anyone has the actual source of the term, I'd love to hear it.
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Original English-language news coverage of Taiwan. ... Jonesing for Joni was listed in Entertainment Weekly, describing a PBS documentary on the folk singer Joni Mitchell. ... "In danger" and "at risk" are seldom heard; we will now delve into the etymology of the operative phrase for potential trouble.
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www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2003/05/11/20555...
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agonist.org/story/2005/4/15/72454/1909
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Preoccupied of late with war words, I have not kept up with the jonesing. ... ''In danger'' and ''at risk'' are seldom heard; we will now delve into the etymology of the operative phrase for potential trouble.
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www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/magazine/the-way-we-live-now...
www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-on-language-jonesing.html?pagewanted=1
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