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H. L. Mencken thought it was an Americanism, but irate British etymologists shot that down with an 1836 use by Charles Dickens in his Sketches by Boz spelled kye-bosk.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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H. L. Mencken thought it was an Americanism, but irate British etymologists shot that down with an 1836 use by Charles Dickens in his Sketches by Boz spelled kye-bosk.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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'What do you mean by hussies?' interrupts a champion of the other party, who has evinced a strong inclination throughout to get up a branch fight on her own account ( 'Hooroar,' ejaculates a pot-boy in parenthesis, 'put the kye-bosk on her, Mary!'), 'What do you mean by hussies?' reiterates the champion.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841
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