Timeline for Etymology of "shark"
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| Jul 4, 2014 at 7:46 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Jul 4, 2014 at 5:37 | answer | added | Mahdi | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 6, 2011 at 1:29 | comment | added | Callithumpian | @Omar: Funny you should mention it. I had a debate with some friends about this and it was going to be my original question before I discovered the ambiguity of the word shark itself. Interesting what @Peter found. Could still be worth its own question. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 17:27 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Omar: looking at the first uses of pool shark I find in Google Books, it seems that the original meaning was just anybody who regularly makes money by playing pool (so a predator at the pool table, which clearly involves a pun on the word pool), but not necessarily one who uses shady tactics. I have certainly heard it used with a negative connotation, though. | |
| Jul 5, 2011 at 10:18 | comment | added | Omar Kooheji | I'd always thought of the term Pool Shark to refer to someone who who hustles other people by pretending to be crap and tempting them to bet against him... I stand corrected... | |
| Jul 3, 2011 at 20:08 | answer | added | Jellicle | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 3, 2011 at 17:56 | answer | added | Tim Lymington | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 3, 2011 at 17:08 | history | edited | RegDwigнt |
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| Jul 3, 2011 at 17:04 | answer | added | mgb | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 3, 2011 at 14:09 | history | asked | Callithumpian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |