truffle is ....

[George Thompson]

But when I did an advanced search for the headword "truffle" as a verb, as
described, I got the response
No exact results found for truffle in the dictionary.


What gives?


GAT


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> At 12/9/2013 01:48 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>
>> Is there a tourist-class OED on line?  I searched for headword "truffle"
>> as
>> a verb.
>>
>>
>> But perhaps my version of the OED filters "draft addictions".
>>
>
> Infelicitously, "draft additions" are at the bottom of everything
> else.  So under "truffle, n." is a hidden verb:
>
> Draft additions  1993
>
> ?truffle v. (intr.) to hunt or root about for truffles; freq. fig.
>
> (Not sure what the initial character is supposed to mean; it's not a
> question mark.)
>
> Joel
>
>
>  GAT
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:30 AM, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Oh! But it seems to be in the OED electronic addition, even as "freq.
>> >
>> > _fig._" in the 1993 draft addictions.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > So, I guess it's a matter of which OED?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > DKB
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Barnhart at highlands.com
>> >
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>> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.
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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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