Noted ref. work

• Shelf-filling bks
• Ref. that includes ROFL as of 2016
• Large ref. book
• Big reference bk
• Multivolume lex
• Famed British ref
• Ref. book whose first edition took 68 years to complete
• Its Word of the Year in 2005 was "sudoku"; in 2013, "selfie": Abbr.
• Ref. that's been online since 2000

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."