Example sentences for: odnw
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Both list Filofax ( Neologisms holding that the trade mark was registered in 1941, the ODNW says the early thirties), and, as expected, the latter includes several subentries (e.g.
I have not taken the trouble to research the accuracy of the information given in these books, but I did note that grody (to the max) , which is not in Neologisms , is described in the ODNW as “US teenagers' slang”; while that might be technically correct, I have evidence that leads me to believe that it originated in the slang of Hawaiian teenagers, and while no American would dispute the nationality of Hawaiians, responsibility should be laid at the door of the real culprits.
Still, I am nagged by inadequacies in Green's definition of high-five , which suggests that each individual might be simply clapping his hands together, and I am bothered by the ODNW's failure to note the date of entry into the language, saying that the earliest use of the term dates to 1979; I think that Green is right to hint at the fact that the gesture preceded its use in sport: my guess is that slap five arose among black teenagers or, perhaps, musicians as a form of greeting, approval, farewell, and the like and was later carried over into sports (perhaps, as the ODNW suggests, by Derek Smith), where it became high five . It seems unlikely that we shall ever know for sure.
Thus, Green cannot be faulted for offering more succinct entries, especially when the further comment in ODNW indicates a difference in purpose:
Also, one will find jet set in Neologisms , because it was coined after 1960; but it is not in the ODNW because it was coined before 1980.
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