1839, “Oxton Friendly Bovial Society records”, in Scottish Archive Network online catalogue:

It may have been Nurse Agnes’ looping signature that touched him off, or the way flesh muffined from the pumps of the fat lady that boarded the bus at his stop every morning: a spark is a spark, and one was as good as any other.

With all the inventions they have in this new land, you would think some man would have invented a zip-her for a talksome woman's mouth.

Na, yor wrang.