Tuesday Tidbit

Mammoth, as used regarding size, was first found in 1802, in the "American Glossary." It doesn't say when it made it's way across the pond, so I'm leaving it out, for now.

Online Etymology Dictionary shared this interesting tidbit:

'...its first uses are in derogatory accounts of the cheese wheel, more than 4 feet in diameter, sent to President Jefferson by the ladies of the Baptist congregation in Cheshire, Massachusetts, as a present, engraved with the motto "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Federalist editors mocked the affair, and called up the word mammoth (known from Peale's exhibition) to characterize it.'

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=mammoth