Oxford English Dictionary

[Obnoxiousness]

I missed a lot of schooling... my education is incomplete, so please don't jump down my throat, as when a Google search fails my next port of call is U75 to ask a human. Not that Google hasn't got the right answer, it's probably more like me not inputting the right phrase.

I was in a charity shop today and picked up two big hardback volumes of:-

"The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary"

I paid £1 for both volumes, thinking that they'd look nice at the end of a bookshelf. But I couldn't help thinking that my "Collins Paperback Dictionary" at home was only one volume.

Having now flicked through the SOED I've not only come to realise what a bargain I got, but also what an ignorant twat I really am.

Like a frog who lives in a well, who knows nothing about the ocean.

 

[gsv]

Awesome bargain!
um - what's your question???

GS(v)

 

[Obnoxiousness]

I've forgotten what my question was..... sorry.

 

[Obnoxiousness]

Remembered...

Does this contain all the words? Or does shorter mean a shorter description of each word? If so, how big is the long version??

 

[Maurice Picarda]

If so, how big is the long version??

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198611868.do

20 vols. £750. Very, very difficult to sneak under your coat in Waterstones.

 

[Obnoxiousness]

20 volumes? I had no idea, thanks.

The two volumes I have here won't fit on a shelf, so I might just have to keep them on my desk.

Astounded at how much I don't know about my own language.

 

[StoneRoad]

That's a good bargain....£2 for the two-vol shorter OED. I'm jealous....

In my mis-spent youth, I was once advised to open a decent dictionary, at random, and learn one new word a day.
As a result, I have a stupidly large list of rare words......which I almost never get to use!
but it can make doing crosswords easier...

 

[gsv]

20 volumes? I had no idea, thanks.

The two volumes I have here won't fit on a shelf, so I might just have to keep them on my desk.

Astounded at how much I don't know about my own language.

A lot of it is...somewhat rarefied.

GS(v)

 

[editor]

So these are some of the new words for 2022:

1. Bully Van

Meaning: A UK police van, distinct in size and colour.

Usage: “Here comes the bully van.”

2. Cringe Factor

Meaning: An element or aspect of a situation, or event that causes a person to cringe with acute embarrassment or awkwardness.

Usage: “His dancing has a very high cringe factor.”

3. Drooking

Meaning: A drenching or soaking.

Usage: “It’s raining so hard outside, I’m drooking.”

4. Fluthered

Meaning: Drunk, intoxicated.

Usage: “He’s drunk so much, he’s absolutely fluthered.”

5. Gaslighter

Meaning: A person who deceives and psychologically manipulates another into questioning his or her own perceptions or sanity.

Usage: “Lay off them. You’re a gaslighter aren’t you?”

6. Langered

Meaning: Very drunk; intoxicated.

Usage: “She was so langered at the wedding.”

7. Sass-box

Meaning: A sassy person; one who is impudent, impertinent, or cheeky. One who is self-assured, bold, or spirited.

Usage: “She is such a little sass-box.”

8. Sharenting

Meaning: The action or practice of sharing news, images, or videos of one’s children on social media websites.

Usage: “They are always sharenting.”

9. Sharesies

Meaning: In childish or playful language: the action of sharing something with another or others.

Usage: “Do you want some? Sharesies.”

10. Soysage

Meaning: A type of vegetarian (now typically vegan) sausage made with soy protein instead of meat.

Usage: “The café now serves soysage.”

11. Stress Bunny

Meaning: A person who is stressed or has a tendency to become stressed.

Usage: “My boss is such a stress bunny.”

12. Stress Eater

Meaning: A person who has a tendency to eat unhealthily in response to or as a means of coping with stress.

Usage: “I am such a stress eater.”

13. Unjabbed

Meaning: A person who has not undergone vaccination; unvaccinated.

Usage: “They haven’t had a vaccine, they’re unjabbed.”

14. Vaccine Hesitant

Meaning: Hesitant, reluctant, or refusing to be vaccinated (or to have one’s children vaccinated) against an infectious disease or diseases.

Usage: “He’s vaccine hesitant.”

15. Vaxxer

Meaning: A person who performs vaccinations.

Usage: “She’s got a new job as a vaxxer.”

 

[Nikkormat]

The OED is a work of magnificence. I'd really like to get a two volume Shorter version. Great book on its history: The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester.

 

[two sheds]

I have the Condensed version: 20 volumes reduced down to 2 volumes .... with magnifying glass the magnifying glass is superb as it happens, often use it.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Everyone in the UK has access to the OED online via their local library card.