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Then we are given frabjous, as in O frabjous day!, which The Concise Oxford allows straightforwardly as meaning delightful, joyous and has provided the adverb, frabjously.
Hype in the sense of excessive or false publicity goes back much further than the 1960s (Collingwood's suggested decade of origin)--to at least the 1920s (per the Oxford English Dictionary ), which is the same time that hype is attested to as a verb and noun associated with drug use, and the word is explicitly linked to hypodermic . The OED , the Dictionary of American Slang , the Barnhart Dictionary of New English , and the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang all make the hypodermic connection.
' ” The Concise Oxford allows both pronunciations.
BBC News reports that Oxford University scientists have determined that locusts attract other locusts with chemical signals to amass swarms that can strip a field bare within hours.
But Oxford provides no reliable guidance in the whole matter.