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    OED Word of the Day: pravilege, n. An evil, injurious, or worthless privilege or law.

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    OED Word of the Day: grand coup, n. A bold and strikingly successful stroke or move.

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    OED Word of the Day: participation mystique, n. Imaginative identification with other people and objects, regarded as an attribute of preliterate peoples. Also: merging of the individual consciousness with that of a group, or with the external world.

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    OED Word of the Day: nyctinasty, n. The tendency of leaves or other parts of a plant to take up different positions at different times, usually in response to regular (esp. nightly) changes in light intensity or temperature.

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    OED Word of the Day: coddy-moddy, n. A (young) gull; esp. a (young) common gull, Larus canus, or black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus.

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    Are you familiar with the word “DINGED”? If so, does it rhyme with "winged" or "hinged" when you pronounce it? Our editors are currently revising this entry and would be delighted if you could help by answering a few questions:

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    FREE WEBINAR! Join us for a live overview of the OED’s academic research tools, and other features and capabilities that make a powerful digital resource for your library. 📅 12th November ⏰ 4:00pm (GMT) Learn more, and register your place here:

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    OED Word of the Day: LOL, v. To laugh out loud; to be amused.

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    OED Word of the Day: ethnobotany, n. The traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants; the scientific study or description of this.

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    OED Word of the Day: water thief, n. A pirate; (sometimes more generally) a person engaged in stealing, plunder, etc., who travels by water.

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    OED Word of the Day: perlage, n. The aggregation of tiny bubbles which forms on the surface of a glass of sparkling wine, champagne, etc.

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    OED Word of the Day: fun, n. Originally: an act of fraud or deception; a trick played on a person; a joke.

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    Congratulations to Sir Roger Penrose for sharing the in Physics yesterday. To mark this incredible achievement, here are just a few of Penrose’s contributions to physics and mathematics, as recorded in the OED:

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    OED Word of the Day: junk, n.3 A sailing vessel of a kind used in East and South-East Asia, typically having fully-battened lugsails.

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    OED Word of the Day: dictitate, v. To speak or say repeatedly.

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    OED Word of the Day: schlep, v. To toil; to go or travel with effort, to traipse.

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    OED Word of the Day: hore, n. Dirt, filth, foulness. Also: mucus, phlegm.

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    OED Word of the Day: deleatur, v. ‘Let it be deleted’: used as an instruction to indicate that a word, sentence, etc., should be deleted from a page or text.

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    OED Word of the Day: garboil, n. Confusion, turmoil; disturbance, tumult; discord, controversy. Also: an instance or state of confusion, disturbance, discord, etc.; a disorderly or tumultuous event.

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    OED Word of the Day: father-lasher, n. The short-spined sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scorpius (family Cottidae), a sculpin of coastal waters in the north Atlantic.

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