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Liberman argues convincingly that the word is part of a large family of Germanic words having the form f + [short vowel] + [stop], having the base meaning to move back and forth (not to thrust, as most dictionaries, and the original edition of The F-Word, had it).
The authors' respective treatment of Howard as a surname and Howard as a first name is perhaps symbolic of the different qualities of these two dictionaries.
The result is that when dictionaries are discussed in the press, only the most superficial issues are given attention--the novelty of the new words entered, the number of usage notes, the number of illustrations.
It is the proper function of a reviewer to question the reason behind the publication of a book, though, in the present case I believe it to be that Oxford University Press took a long, hard look at the revenues to be realized from a dictionary that could compete, in the UK market at least, with dictionaries of similar length published by Collins, Longman, Chambers, and others.
The dictionaries I have checked are silent--improperly so, I think--on these senses.