How does his work on the O.E.D. change Dr. Minor's personality?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester: Questions] Reference

The O.E.D., Shea notes, is 'a catalog of the foibles of the human condition.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

What was the initial projection of how long the O.E.D. would take to complete?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester: Questions] Reference

According to the author, how might Dr. Minor have learned of the creation of the O.E.D.?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester: Questions] Reference

I figure the O.E.D. will have no trouble coming up with appropriate citations when the time comes.    From Wordnik.com.  [dustbury.com » At night, the crapweasels run] Reference

I bet the only beneficiary of this flap will be the O.E.D., which will get a snazzy new word to list.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Zumbo] Reference

The print version of the unabridged O.E.D. curiously calls "dude" originally "a factitious slang term.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dude, Where's My Dude ? Dudelicious Dissection, From Sontag to Spicoli] Reference

What are some of the ideas and rumors about Minor that float around the Scriptorium, where the O.E.D. is being written and edited?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester: Questions] Reference

As Freeman points out, the O.E.D. “has examples of ‘be afraid’ meaning ‘expect something unpleasant’ as early as 1530.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Century of Bugaboos - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

THE Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, the scaled-down, two-volume version of the mammoth 20-volume O.E.D., just got a little shorter.    From Wordnik.com.  [October 2007] Reference

(Note that Prof. Brendon uses the plural; the O.E.D. continues to insist on the theoretical existence of a single moustache on one half of the face.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow] Reference

We are referring to correct English translations, and the O.E.D. covers all specialist usages of terms and is the most comprehensive source for this.    From Wordnik.com.  [URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion] Reference

Islamofascism, from the New York Times: The O.E.D. has a half-dozen citations of the Islamo combining form dating to 1906, from IslamoArab to Islamocentrist.    From Wordnik.com.  ["We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat [the] mujahadeen."] Reference

Oxford was still studying the matter, Jesse said, although he checked the O.E.D. 's on-line data base and found a citation for "dude" applied to a woman as early as the mid-70's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dude, Where's My Dude ? Dudelicious Dissection, From Sontag to Spicoli] Reference

In any case boo-boo, n., is not yet listed in the O.E.D., or the otherwise impeccable Australian National Dictionary, so I shall certain make a point of speaking to the editors about this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

The O.E.D. found cleavage to have made its appearance in 1816 about the mechanical division of crystals “sometimes called cleavage by lapidaries” cutters of gems, nothing to do with lap-dancing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

"Dude" may have been made up "factitiously" (I'd like to know the dude who did it), but according to the O.E.D., it first came into vogue in New York about 1883, in connection with what the O.E.D. calls "the 'aesthetic craze' of the day.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dude, Where's My Dude ? Dudelicious Dissection, From Sontag to Spicoli] Reference

I am glad to be enlightened about stuss, a word which is not included in the O.E.D. (I never use Webster), and I am sorry to have missed the account of it in connection with Pushkin's gambling, but my attention, as I read the commentary, did occasionally flag a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters: the Strange Case of Nabokov and Wilson] Reference

For the record, here is the primary O.E.D. definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwiniana] Reference

O.E.D. dates it to the 1940s and helpfully equates it with "hepcat.".    From Wordnik.com.  [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference

So how did the editor of the O.E.D. end up on the technology podcast?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Ammon Shea is the author of "Reading the O.E.D.: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

So if you're a fan of the O.E.D. or the English language itself, listen to this week's episode of.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

O.E.D., for it might represent, the O.N. dative fleti, which must have been common in the phrase a fleti (cf. the first verse of 'Havamal').    From Wordnik.com.  [Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems] Reference

This meaning doesn't yet appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, though the O.E.D. does record the expression "to bore someone's ears," meaning to "insist upon a hearing," from which it probably derived.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Any traveler knows that in France an auberge is an inn, but we are told in the O.E.D., on the alleged authority of the great French lexicographer, Littré, that in this fruity and enigmatic case, "auberge" is a variant of "alberge," a word for peach.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4] Reference

If you look in the O.E.D. under “cautious to a fault,” I’m certain one of the definitions will be “a consortium of foundations.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another !@#*& Learning Opportunity] Reference

Lynch points to a 1947 usage cited in the O.E.D. that suggests that the question of the Janeite’s gender was starting to make people nervous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Austen’s Dangerous Books for Boys - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

"The word fleet in the 'Lyke-wake Dirge' has been much misunderstood, but it is certain1y the same thing as flet-floor; see the O.E.D. and E.D.D. under.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems] Reference

Other thesauri are readable; this one would take considerable trouble to master and it’s certainly not something you can browse casually for pleasure, as you can the O.E.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary: With Additional Material from A Thesaurus of Old English « Books « Literacy News] Reference

(O.E.D., p. 163).    From Wordnik.com.  [Civic Education] Reference

When we learned that the O.E.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The O.E.D. also cites a Spanish word for apricot.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4] Reference

Monthly subscription fee to the O.E.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The O.E.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference