truffle is ....

[Joel S. Berson]

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.
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>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


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>On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:30 AM, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com>wrote:
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> > Oh! But it seems to be in the OED electronic addition, even as "freq.
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> > _fig._" in the 1993 draft addictions.
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> > So, I guess it's a matter of which OED?
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