Clergyman’s Wife writes Humorous Musical Sketch? (Votes for Women!) I don’t go on shopping sprees. But let me loose on eBay, and who knows what I’ll buy? I came across a Bayley & Ferguson publication from ca.1894-6. It was published both in Glasgow …

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Thanks @simonkoppel.bsky.social. Interesting. It does indeed seem to be a bogus document; at least, it used to say so on this (now archived-only) page on the All Souls website. So that quotation needs redating. Leave it with me.... #ongoingresearch
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Can fairly easily be traced back a little earlier—here's an ad from the Jewish Record of 11 Dec 1868. #ongoingresearch

I hear ya. In fact it predates Pratchett: my late mother often referred to something having a high embuggerance factor. An expression which may have military origins, and goes back at least to 1969 (this from the Daily Mirror). #ongoingresearch

Yeah, well...so what do we make of these newspapers.com examples from 9 May 1861 (Lancaster Gazette) and 28 Feb 1865 (Lafayette Journal and Courier) respectively? Not the thing with ice cream, but not anything I'm familiar with either. #ongoingresearch #AKAantedatingaddiction

Update: the verb has now recently been traced to 1942 and the use as an interjection (it's more that than a noun) to 1920. #ongoingresearch

Couldn't say. I can look into it. #ongoingresearch

And here's a substantially earlier example, from Francis Liardet's ‘Professional Recollections on Points of Seamanship, Discipline, &c.’ (1849). #ongoingresearch

FWIW we have this from 1584 on file, from William Warner's ‘Pan his Syrinx’. Also applied to tongues (currently sense 3a). The earliest in any sense, at the moment. And earlier than any known instance of the supposed etymon ‘glibbery’... #ongoingresearch

Both found in the British Newspaper Archive: Portadown News 28 May 1932 and Daily Mirror 28 Dec 1933 respectively. I do find myself wondering whether they represent the fully-formed ‘excellent’ sense; no doubt more investigation will clarify things. #ongoingresearch