"hazing", OED sense 3, needs work

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Jul 14 13:18:05 UTC 2012


At 7/14/2012 07:28 AM, Dave Wilton wrote:
>This looks like one of the entries that hasn't been updated since the first
>edition.

Yes, I knew it was a relic of a sealed, dusty closet.  ("closet" =
'private room, inner chamber'.)  But in the spirit of today's outing
of bullies, the casting of a bright light on their evil, I thought it
might merit out-of-order attention by the OED.

Joel

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