truffle is ....

[Joel S. Berson]

Simple search for the simple-minded.  :-)  I
think George cited "Advanced Search" for
headword, and with or without Part of Speech =
verb that does not find "truffle, v.".  Being of
a convoluted mind, I did not try "Quick search" =
truffle, which does turn up the verb, as Larry corrected me.

(It's still true that "Draft additions" are obscure at the end of entries.)

Joel

At 12/9/2013 08:04 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>On Dec 9, 2013, at 5:58 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>Well, when I just do a search on "truffle",
>there are two pointers, one to the noun, the other reading:
>
>2. ˈtruffle in truffle, n. View full entry 1958
>
>...(intr.) to hunt or root about for truffles; freq. fig
.
>
>Clicking on the second "truffle" leads directly
>to the draft addi(c)tion  entry, of which my favorite cite is the last:
>
>1991   Observer 4 Aug. 17/6   Swedes almost
>truffle for grief and inevitably find it.
>
>One of the four examples is (almost) literal
>(pigs truffling for acorns), the others
>figurative, with the trufflees ranging from
>ephemera in New York, errors in texts, or as we see grief among Swedes.
>
>LH
>
> >
> >
> > 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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> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> 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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> > 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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