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Originally Posted By: CuruinorAnd I can find a source from Time's archives from 1953(look at the date) - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,806664-3,00.html
Hence, long before the 2nd edition came out. I say that the OED did a shoddy job of this one.
well, that's a reference to one of the citations I linked to above, and stems from a series of letters written from 1916-1935. but this doesn't seem germane to anything, as the word *isn't in OED at all*.
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