More on kibosh: ca. 1830 "Penal Servitude!" broadside denounced the callousness (not merely ineffectiveness) of the reform activity of the early 1830’s

Author

Gerald Leonard Cohen, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow

Recommended Citation

Cohen, G. L. (2022). More on kibosh: ca. 1830 "Penal Servitude!" broadside denounced the callousness (not merely ineffectiveness) of the reform activity of the early 1830’s. Comments on Etymology, January 2022, 51(4), pp. 2-14. Gerald Leonard Cohen.

Department(s)

Arts, Languages, and Philosophy

Comments

Other articles of interest on this topic include:

• The Origin of Kibosh
• Comments on Etymology, May 2019: Kibosh Update #4 (Compilation)
• 'For "Kibosh": More evidence a whip can be "put on".'
• Revisit to kibosh – rejecting the Irish ‘cap-of-death’ etymology
• Revisit to kibosh – OED3’s tentative consideration of a Yiddish origin for kibosh in ‘put the kibosh on’ should be definitively set aside

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Final Version

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text

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English

Rights

© 2022 Gerald Leonard Cohen, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

Jan 2022