New fandom entry for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "croggling", meaning 'astounding' etc. First found from Marion Zimmer Bradley in 1960.
Also, added a 1957 antedating for "croggled", and redid the entry for "croggle" v. to cover intrans. uses.
https://sfdictionary.com/view/2558/croggling
https://sfdictionary.com/view/441/croggle
Today's fandom antedatings for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "faan", from 1953 to 1951; and "faanish", from 1959 to 1951. Both typically denoting a non-serious fan.
https://sfdictionary.com/view/2290/faan
https://sfdictionary.com/view/2359/faanish
Antedating o'the day for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: one of my favorite entries, "eyetracks", (imaginary?) marks left on a book by the act of reading it. From 1952 to '49 (plus another '52 referring to art rather than books: tweaked def for this).
Today's antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "congoer", a person who attends conventions, from 1954 to 1950, courtesy of Jeff Prucher.
New entry for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: the straightforward but important "craft", for a spacecraft. From 1900 onwards (send in any proto-SF examples if you can find them!).
Also added a several-month antedating of "spacecraft" itself.
Antedating o'the day for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "completist", from 1940 to 1938. (Also, sent this in to OED, which only has 1951 for this.)
Unusual bracketed antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "ship", a spaceship, fr the first English translation of Lucian of Samosata in 1663! But refers to a nautical ship caught in a whirlwind & then traveling the stars.
Also updated the entry.
Today's extremely trivial antedating for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction: "COA", a change of address (in fanzine contexts), from 1961 to 1959.
Jesse Sheidlower