Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:34:23 -0500

From: Molly Dickmeyer dickmeye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JBLSMTP.PHL.LRPUB.COM

Subject: Chinchy to Ginchy -Reply



Fred "Kooky" Burns, in the song "Kooky, Kooky, Lend Me Your Comb"

[sp. and exact title?], at one point says, "Baby, you're the

ginchiest." 1950s, I think. Suppose this is where it came from?



Molly



William King WFKING[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU 1/25/96, 08:53pm

I grew up close to Vermont and heard only [chin si]. However, in the

early

'70's, a guy from inner-beltway D.C. in college with me used "ginchy"

to mean something really neat/cool/catchy, but a bit quirky, as

opposed to far-out, as awesome might have been said in 1972.

Bill King