oed造句
31. The OED says "couch potato" originated as American slang, meaning "a pennon who spends leisure –time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes" .
32. The Coopers company began sewing labels marked jockey into their undershorts in 1947 but the OED tells us it was only 1966 when someone wrote about jockey briefs in a book.
33. Although the OED is not a narrative, not scripture, not poetry , it is, nonetheless, transportive.
34. One, fubar supposedly standing for "fu**ed up beyond all recognition" actually has made it into the OED along with snafu.
35. The OED says this form of slug a slang usage, not tracing the origin.
36. The source of the word dapper is "Flemish or another Low German dialect" according to the OED.
37. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term capitalism was first used by novelist William Makepeace Thackeray in 1854 in The Newcomes, where he meant "having ownership of capital".
38. At least that's what the OED tells us; the only example that they can find of the word scrannel is in Milton's Lycidas.
39. The multi - volume Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) lists and defines all words in the English language.
40. The OED is the court of appeal in all matters concerning English words.
41. The OED is the final court of appeal in all matters concerning Egilish words.
42. So in the late '60s when The Lord of the Rings was making its first rise to popularity the OED added hobbit as an entry.
43. I see that the entrys in the OED second and draft third edition a little different.
44. The OED is the definitive work on the history and usage of English.
45. It was found that OED belonged to mixed corrosion inhibitor by electrochemical curve.
46. For example, OED found a quotation for OMG in a personal letter from 1917, and FYI (For Your Information) originated in the language of memoranda in 1941.
47. Strangely, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology seems to agree with Brewer's and not with the OED—it's fellow Oxford University Press publication, in blaming galoshes on the Gauls.
48. The OED online gives a first citation of gazpacho from 1845 and even gives a recipe.
49. The OED reports that this sense fed a slang expression where to beef someone was to knock them down; showing first in writing in 1926.
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