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http://wordiq.comtsuwm, you're referenced there a lot. In fact, some here on AWAD are referenced there from some of our more esoteric language discussions. It's a good site.
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Cool. Of course, as soon as I saw the Search window I couldn't think of a thing I wanted to look up; finally I tried your word, esoteric. It gave me this unusually-named drink, among other things:
Esoteric Solipsist
The esoteric solipsist is a cocktail consisting of equal parts Fernet Branca, Pernod, Italian grappa, and tequila.
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What interested me about this post was that it led to my discovering an unusually high traffic in this forum. I knew that wordiq had been mentioned here before, by etaoin, and I went looking for it. Despite the fact that the first mention of wordiq was as recent as August 2004, that thread has already been pushed off the front page in I & A. Back in the good old days, threads would remain in I & A as if they were in stasis. The times they are a-changin'.
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been mentioned here before, by etaoinI thought it sounded familiar... 
formerly known as etaoin...
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Sorry about the repetition, et', and thanks, Max, for the observation. Obviously, I'd missed et's thread. Still, wordiq.com is a good site for checking definitions. I haven't come across it on onelook.com, but I also hadn't been looking for it there.
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it's yet another variation on search engines, is it not?
I'd expect it to come up with results similar to taking the google link from within onelook. (an option limited by +dictionary +lexicon etc.)
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