Re: Last word in the dictionary
| From: | t. alexander mcleay NOMAIL <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 15, 2001, 11:22 |
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> Shorter OED (3d ed. 1944, reprint w/corrections 1965): zymurgy - the
> art or practice of fermentation. (You surely have this already)
I can beat you on that one---
zzz /z@z/ n. Colloq. a sleep. [from the convention used, esp. by
cartoonists, to represent sleep or the sound of snoring]
That's from the first ed. of the Macquarie Australian Dictionary (I
think. i've lost the cover and first few pages).
Tristan
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