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Subject: Re: [motm] swag ???

From: Neil Bradley <nb@...>
Date: 2003-08-09

> of the Vulgar Tongue, where one of the definitions is 'any quantity of
> goods'. James Hardy Vaux, who was a convict in Australia, includes the term
> in the slang dictionary compiled in 1812 and published in his Memoirs in
> 1819: 'The Swag is a term used in speaking of any booty you have lately
> obtained'.

It also means "Someone's/Scientific Wild Assed Guess". ;-)

-->Neil

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