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Me: I participate in this challenge. have you heard of this guy?

Him:

Nope.

Me:

hahahahahahahahahahahahah!!! well that just put the kabosh on my impressive email to you for today! did I spell kabosh right? or is it cabosh? OH never mind! xox love you, Mom!

Him:

I think it might be kibosh?

 

Me: 

WOW! thanks! you rule !!! I actually have never written that word out ever before anywhere. xoxox Mom!

Him:

Look! What a weird word!

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/kibosh.htm

PUTTING THE KIBOSH ON IT

Many words in English have obscure origins, particularly those that first appeared in argot, cant or slang. None is more mysterious than kibosh, which is most commonly encountered in the phrase to put the kibosh on something, to finish something off, put an end to it, decisively dispose of it, or reject it. This is perhaps less common than it once was, though examples are easy enough to find:

We had been invited to Whiteshell Provincial Park by the Three Fires Society to participate in a special First Nations ceremony at a remote, sacred site. Record amounts of rainfall that morning, on top of an access trail already compromised by all-terrain vehicles, effectively put the kibosh on the proceedings.

Winnipeg Free Press, 12 Jun. 2010.

David Laws stepped down as Chief Secretary to the Treasury because he channelled taxpayers’ money to his partner. So can we have less, please, of the gay martyr act? It was his abuse of the expenses system, not his sexuality, that put the kibosh on a political career.

The Mirror (London), 1 Jun. 2010.

The word originated in Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century. Until recently, it was believed that the first written evidence was in Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz of 1836, where he spelled it phonetically as kye-bosk (Douglas Wilson of the American Dialect Society has recently discovered that the same piece appeared in the magazine Bell’s Life in London the year before).
Now we have electronic databases of newspapers and periodicals that cover this period, slightly earlier appearances are known. It turned up in a number of London journals within a few days of each other in late 1834, following a case in a London magistrates’ court that concerned two chimney sweeps, who were convicted of having touted for business by crying their services in the streets (they were fined a shilling each, plus costs). One of the sweeps made a whimsical comment on the recent change of government from the Whigs to the Conservatives, the latter being temporarily led by the Duke of Wellington:

The real cause of the “kiboshing” of the ex-Chancellor and his crew came out on Tuesday at Marlborough-street, before Mr. Dyer. A chimney-sweep was convicted for having (according to the phraseology of this Whig Act) “hawked the streets” — upon which his Blackness remarked: — “It vos the Vigs vot passed this Bill, and what the Duke of Vellington put the kibosh on ’em for, and sarve ’em right. It warnt nothing else than this here hact vot floored ’em.”

The Age, 30 Nov. 1834. Note the frequent substitution of w by v, a characteristic of working-class London speech of the period. The newspaper seems to have liked the word, since kiboshing appears again a week later to refer to a terse rebuff by the King, William IV, to an impertinent suggestion from a group of politicians, and kibosh occurs several more times in later months.

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Me:

I do NOT believe this! I may have to blog about it!!! Thank you! WOW what an hysterical article!!! you rock the house!!! love you!!! Mom

and that was that!  Thank you, Michael Quinlon for your amazing article.