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This represents the earliest citation that The Oxford English Dictionary has for a long gun being referred to as a rifle.

That might have been a bit ahead of its time -- "globalism" didn't even enter the Oxford English Dictionary until 1986.

The name entered the Oxford English Dictionary after just two years and the toy is a permanent exhibit in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

In The Oxford English Dictionary the term gun moll is said to be American slang for a female thief or an armed woman.

Today, the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is still recognized as one of the most accurate and comprehensive dictionaries in the world.

Notify the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary: the word "plenty" has been redefined to mean "two. "

The Oxford English Dictionary is just embarrassing at this point.

Furnivall went on to be the second editor of what became The Oxford English Dictionary.

He recently spent a year reading all 20 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary .

I looked up bamboozled in the Oxford English Dictionary online, that's where the draft third edition can be found.

The word dates back to the 17th century, deriving, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, from the Latin for "kidnapper. "

Most dictionaries, like the Oxford English Dictionary, have an online version.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites 1963 as the first occurrence of expo, and in this case it was spelled with a capital E.

'Google' enters the lexicon as the Oxford English Dictionary lists it as a verb.

In another sign of the changing times, the internet may soon render the print version of the Oxford English Dictionary obsolete.

Recent additions to the Oxford English Dictionary have included po-faced entries for "Google" (the verb), "wiki" and "mash-up" .

So, there's this guy , right? Victorian era. James Murray, first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary .

I'm a great reader of the Oxford English Dictionary. I love the historical meanings of words.

This is the Oxford English Dictionary Online, one of the best online dictionaries.

I've talked before about JRR Tolkien and his association with The Oxford English Dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary entry for flatter admits that its etymology is "doubtful" but suggests that flatter may be related to flat.

Death of the published dictionary: Oxford English Dictionary to exist solely online.

To get the deeper truth we need to burrow deeper into the hobbit hole and The Oxford English Dictionary is the place to do that.

1884 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

The internet slang term "LOL" (laughing out loud) has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, to the mild dismay of language purists.

Sure enough the Oxford English Dictionary traces mess back to Anglo-Norman and Old French before that.

The Oxford English Dictionary answers the first clearly enough: incent is "apparently a back formation" .

The first citations in the Oxford English Dictionary for the entry for "goodbye" are from Shakespeare.

The folks over at Oxford English Dictionary take a different view.

The first citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is only from 1946.

But the Oxford English Dictionary will never appear in print again, its owners have announced.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Daft meant "mild" or "meek" in Old English, whereas it means "foolish" today.

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Except of course for the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary claims that blizzard is a fairly new word.

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The word virgin appears first in English around the year 1200 according to The Oxford English Dictionary.

I find in the Oxford English Dictionary that there are ten words pale spelled pale.

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The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short.

Oxford English Dictionary, 1989. Second Edition.

"Unfriend" has an ancient past, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

But the first English citation that appears in The Oxford English Dictionary for Jockey is used in hate.

I have recently written to the Oxford English Dictionary asking them to correct their draft definition.

In 1802, the Oxford English Dictionary defined Hamburg steak as salt beef.

This is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in electronic form, on a CD-ROM disk 15 centimetres wide.

The first time the word was used in English was in 1899 according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

He passed away in 1888 and The Oxford English Dictionary traces the first time such poetry being called a limerick to 1896.

Take for example The Oxford English Dictionary citation dated 1646. It refers to King Richard II as being tantalized at Pontefract Castle.

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first citation in the year when William Shakespeare was three years old, that's 1567.

Well, here's one that beats Disney. Sam found it in the Oxford English Dictionary. Their longest non-technical word is:

The Oxford English Dictionary agrees, saying:

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