Game Change

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 08:38:39PM -0500, Bill Palmer wrote:
> This book, receiving so much buzz, has on p. 3 "Obama was fiending for information in a way his aides had never seen before".
>
> "Fiending" is not found in Dictionary.com., but doubletongued.org defines it as "craving, desiring, wanting, obsessing (over)"
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else would have understood the sentence, and not thought it was some kind of typo or misprint.
>

I think it's pretty well known; I'm surprised it's not in more
college-size dictionaries. OED does have it, with a first
quotation from 1988 (HDAS's entry has two different 1988
quots.).

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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