Hustings

[nq:1]I noticed in the OED that the word "husting" originally referred to an assembly, then to a court of law ... explain when the term morphed into "hustings" to refer to the "electioneering circuit." Would anyone have this piece of information?[/nq]
I always placed the hustings somewhere near the boondocks.
Ron Hardin
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[nq:1]I noticed in the OED that the word "husting" originally referred to an assembly, then to a court of law ... explain when the term morphed into "hustings" to refer to the "electioneering circuit." Would anyone have this piece of information?[/nq]
In particular, from the early 18C that (temporary) platform was used for nominating parliamentary candidates, so is identified with electoral pr

[nq:2]I noticed in the OED that the word "husting" originally ... the "electioneering circuit." Would anyone have this piece of information?[/nq]
OED (obsolete 1st ed, in my case) doesn't seem clear on this, does it? I'd guess that it means the 1850 quotation from Carlyle and the 1837 one from Disraeli ('hustings-orator') belong to the transferred meaning; but I'm not at all sure.
Certainl

[nq:1]OED (obsolete 1st ed, in my case) doesn't seem clear on this, does it? I'd guess that it means the ... ('hustings-orator') belong to the transferred meaning; but I'm not at all sure. Certainly, though, the court meaning overlaps its descendant.[/nq]Elections of county members of parliament, in the earliest period, were held "in county court", the county court (no relation to the modern creat

[nq:2]I noticed in the OED that the word "husting" originally ... the "electioneering circuit." Would anyone have this piece of information?[/nq]
[nq:1]I always placed the hustings somewhere near the boondocks.[/nq]
"Boondocks" entered (American) English from a Micronesian language, during WWII.

Peter T. Daniels (Email Removed)

[nq:2]I always placed the hustings somewhere near the boondocks.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Boondocks" entered (American) English from a Micronesian language, during WWII.[/nq]
Tagalog, according to Partridge.
Bob

[nq:2]"Boondocks" entered (American) English from a Micronesian language, during WWII.[/nq]
[nq:1]Tagalog, according to Partridge.[/nq]
Partridge ought to have consulted E. J. Kahn of the New Yorker, who was a war correspondent in the Pacific Theater, and later returned to Micronesia (his least-known book, probably, is the memoir of that trip), and he gives quite convincing accounts of the

[nq:1]"Boondocks" entered (American) English from a Micronesian language, during WWII.[/nq]
Curiously in view of this fact, MWCD9 says entered from Tagalog, a Filipino language, no later than 1925.

The earliest citation in American English seems to be 1909.
[nq:2]Tagalog, according to Partridge.[/nq]
According to just about everyone else too. Here's a quote from one of the more detailed ones (turoturo.com):
"The Tagalog word bundok: (pronounced boon-DOCK, stress on the last syllable) is a noun, meaning mountain or a very high hill. It also means Mount. Bundok ng Makiling means Mo

[nq:2]I noticed in the OED that the word "husting" originally ... the "electioneering circuit." Would anyone have this piece of information?[/nq]
[nq:1]I always placed the hustings somewhere near the boondocks.[/nq]
I always thought it referred to podia collectively.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa