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The dictionary section contains dates (where applicable), etymologies, and descriptive definitions.
Here is a small start on a glossary of glossolalia, a demidictionary of drivel that lists the varieties of verbal obfuscation and explains the etymologies of these often playful terms.
Etymologies are provided for a small proportion of entries.
It is well known that the origins of many words still elude the most determined researchers in etymology, but, taken as a whole, I should imagine that the proportion of idiomatic expressions without confirmed etymologies may be higher than that of words whose provenance has not been established.
3. W lists etymologies near the beginning of those entries that have them, directly following the inflected forms (if any); L places them at the end of the entry.