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To gain some perspective of this figure: an average individual handles 2,000 to 20,000 terms in his or her daily language, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary provides definitions for 225,000 terms (www.merriam-webstercollegiate.com/).
Such a move had, indeed, taken place many years before Philip Gove's editorship of the MW-III and is evidenced in such works as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate, Webster's New World, and American College dictionaries, among others.
"Often," he says, drawing on Merriam-Webster's voluminous citation files, "groovy is used in reference to something from, or reminiscent of, the 1960s (clothing, spiritualism, things that glow in black light), but just as often (actually, more often) the word appears to be used in reference to the contemporary scene.
It is only from an article about CED that we learn it has “171,000 entries,” which suggests that Collins means by references what Merriam-Webster means by entries . But CED and Cobuild certainly do not say so!
The Merriam-Webster Unabridged says bumfuzzle is an "alteration of English dialect, 'dumfoozle' and 'dumfound.