Ooh Baby …
Yo lemme tell ya bout Boogaloo
Boogie Borrowing from Irish into English we used the words boogie and boogaloo to mean move fast or depart quickly with no reference to music.
What Does Boogie Mean?
1941 Ball of Fire – Billy Wilder, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyk.
Slang is words that takes off his coat, spits on it’s hands and gets to work!
Irish American Vernacular English
TRACING when words first get “BORROWED” from the vernacular into the standard.
IRISH LANGUAGE WORDS GET BORROWED
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” ~James D. Nicoll 1990
The High Numbers at the Railway Hotel, 1964
Maximum r’n’b by a very young mod band called the high numbers who had the sense to change the name of the band back to THE WHO,THE REST IS ROCK HISTORY
The Who Live at Pontiac Stadium 1975
I saw them live in Philly 1970