2015 April 24, Dimenno, Francis, “The Information #883”, in dimenno:
And didn’t Conklin say ‘Hah! Hah! Hah! I want gold!’ or words to that effect? And didn’t you tell him that the pawn shop that he has there is the home of the feathered oof-bird?”
References
Farmer, John Stephen(1902)Slang and Its Analogues, volume 5, page 107