What came first.......?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Dunno if this has been done before, but here goes anyways…

Sloth

…the name (of the animal) or the word?

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Looks to me like the word came first. From www.m-w.com:

The entry under THREE-TOED SLOTH gives a date of 1879, and TWO-TOED SLOTH gives 1781. There’s also an entry for GROUND SLOTH which gives a date of 1860.

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Not to mention the “slothy tives.”

Whoops! I said I wouldn’t mention them. Sorry.
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…'tain’t often you get to imply Lewis Carroll and William Spooner in two words.

–Nott

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Gee, I thought we were going to be discussing Gallus domesticus and it’s ovum.

(OK, wiseass going back in to woodwork now…)