Subj. of the book "Treasure-House of the Language"

• Massive ref. bk
• Brit. reference work
• Ref. with about 600,000 word-forms
• "Mansplain" was added to it in Jan. 2018
• Famed multivolume ref. wk
• Ref. with more than 2 1/2 million quotations
• Ref. conceived of in 1857 by London's Philological Society
• Ref. work with online subscriptions
• Lexicographer's ref

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
initialism (acronym) of Oxford English Dictionary , attested from 1898, according to the "Oxford English Dictionary."