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▪ I. sooner1 U.S. slang.|ˈsuːnə(r)|
[f. soon adv.]
One who acts prematurely; esp. one who endeavoured to get into Government territory in the West before the time appointed for its settlement (chiefly with reference to the settlement of the territory now known as Oklahoma before the official opening of the area to settlers on 22 April 1889). Hence (with capital initial), an Oklahoman. Also attrib.; the Sooner State, Oklahoma. Hence ˈsoonerism, the practice of the unlawful and premature settlement of Oklahoma.
1890in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 7 May, Governor Campbell..thinks it altogether too soon to talk of 1892... The Governor is quite right in declining to be regarded as a sooner. 1890Congress. Rec. 17 Jan. 657/2 We have recognized the fact that there are ‘sooners’ there. 1892Law Times XCIII. 413/1 The settler that gets in surreptitiously..is called a ‘Sooner’, because he gets there sooner than the rest. 1893Philadelphia Daily Inquirer 21 Aug., The intention and attempt to keep the Sooners off the Cherokee strip..have come to grief. 1894Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 19 Mar., An important case growing out of the ‘soonerism’ at the Oklahoma opening will be given a hearing. 1904N.Y. Even. Post 13 June 7 White ‘sooners’..were trying to rob them [sc. Indians] of some of the most valuable mineral deposits on their reservation. 1930Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 22 Mar. 841/3 She has done excellent reporting, has constructed a ripping yarn, has given us novel incidents, novel characters, a fresh setting, has created a strange new Sooner mythology. 1939New Yorker 14 Oct. 73 Oklahoma uses on its road signs a phrase which I first heard in Kansas and never again except in the Sooner State. 1945J. L. Marshall Santa Fe 232 They watched the line through telescopes and, congratulating themselves on their success in checkmating ‘Soonerism’, figured it would take the first settlers on the fastest horses, about ninety minutes to reach Oklahoma. 1948Okla. Cotton Grower 15 May 2/2 For the Sooner State planter that is perhaps the first major theorem of the business. 1948[see Okie]. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 30 June 4-e/2 University of Oklahoma quarterback Joe McReynolds was dropped from the Sooners football roster Tuesday.
▪ II. sooner2 slang (chiefly Austral.).
[perh. as prec.]
An idler, shirker; applied as a term of abuse to an ineffectual or obstructive person, object, etc. Also attrib. in sooner dog.
1892K. Lentzner Dict. Slang-English of Australia 117 Sooner, a weak idler, a lazy good-for-nothing. 1919E. Dyson Hello, Soldier! 31 He slugged a tubby Hun, Then choked a Fritzie with his dukes, 'n' pinched the sooner's gun! 1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxv. 270 Onlookers: Tongue-tied Joe, a sooner dog, a Scotch dog, a dog of all nations, a hungry goat. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 801/1 Sooner dog, one that would sooner feed than fight. 1948V. Palmer Golconda xix. 159 ‘The dirty sooners!’ he burst out. ‘They don't know a man when they find one, those heads down south.’ 1969P. A. Smith Folklore of Austral. Railwaymen 117 This was an old sooner of an engine. She'd had it. On a stiff climb in a tunnel she began to slip. |