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Example sentences for: oed

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(The OED was originally published over a number of years in fascicles of various lengths which were sold by subscription, a method that is, alas, no longer practised.)
Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!
OED2e calls gaumy a rare word and offers the alternate spelling gormy .
The only thing that I have not been able to find in medical dictionaries, the OED , or even in A Sea of Words , is his use of the word marthambles , which remains unknown to me.
,” meaning, obviously that there is some possibility of that derivation; the OED etymology is “Origin unknown.”