is the glomper clip etymologically related to glomping
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in reply to @vogon's post:
did a tiny amount of investigation.
- in the sense of a human gesture of affection, the earliest use of "glomping" I can find on google books is a use of the phrase "glomping on to" from a 1986 mystery novel. (earlier uses refer onomatopoetically to a sound or a walking gait.)
- while the CMOS Cookbook (1977) uses "glomper clips" with a lower-case G, the TTL Cookbook (1974) refers to them with an upper-case G. (the RTL Cookbook (1968) doesn't seem to mention them at all.)
seems likely that glomper clips predate the existence of glomping! no idea what (or who) they're named after, though.
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