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cpheonix | 13:56 Tue 20th Feb 2007 | Phrases & Sayings
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Anyone know the origin of this saying?
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The word's origin is unknown but it started life as a piece of American slang in the very early 1900s to mean anything of special excellence.
. . . sounds pritty special too me
maybe to represent the sound of someone "humming up" a particularly meaty "grolly", or heavy, ponderous yield of mucous, before yoiking it at the spittle, the impact providing the "DING"??

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