musterdevillers [was Re: loco-foco]

[Hutch]

I suddenly realized *I* haven't seen an answer to musterdevillers yet
either. David, you alive out there?

On 1/4/06, lindafowens <lindafowens at netzero.net> wrote:
> Thanks, Hutch!  I had forgotten, and tend to associate the words with the
> fake defs, anyway.  By the way, did I miss the answers to musterdevillers, I
> think that's the spelling?  Linda  PS If I get my house decluttered, a major
> project, you can all camp out here--and eat in the house, of course  (only a
> few spare beds and couches).
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hutch" <hutchinson.jeff at gmail.com>
> To: "lindafowens" <lindafowens at netzero.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 2:02 AM
> Subject: Re: loco-foco
>
>
> From the Webster Dictionary, 1913
> <http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=locofoco>. Or
> even easier: from OneLook <http://www.onelook.com/>
>
> Locofoco, n. [Of uncertain etymol.; perh. for L. loco foci instead of
> fire; or, according to Bartlett, it was called so from a self-lighting
> cigar, with a match composition at the end, invented in 1834 by John
> Marck of New York, and called by him locofoco cigar, in imitation of
> the word locomotive, which by the uneducated was supposed to mean,
> self-moving.]
>
> 1. A friction match. [U.S.]
>
> 2. A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.
> [U.S.] The name was first applied, in 1834, to a portion of the
> Democratic party, because, at a meeting in Tammany Hall, New York, in
> which there was great diversity of sentiment, the chairman left his
> seat, and the lights were extinguished, for the purpose of dissolving
> the meeting; when those who were opposed to an adjournment produced
> locofoco matches, rekindled the lights, continued the meeting, and
> accomplished their object.
>
> Hutch
>
>
> On 1/3/06, lindafowens <lindafowens at netzero.net> wrote:
> > Hi, All my old stored emails disappeared recently, so could someone please
> > refresh my memory of the real definition of loco-foco? Silly me.  Linda
> >
>
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