- - Its 2022 Word of the Year was 'goblin mode' (Abbr.)
- - it's 2021 word of the year was "vax"
- - "the definitive record" updated quarterly
- - It added "essential worker" in March of 2021: Abbr.
- - Principal historical dictionary of the English language: Abbr.
- - multivolume set in the reference sect.
- - Subject of the book "The Meaning of Everything," briefly
- - "The Professor and the Madman" subj.
- - Ref. work featured in "The Professor and the Madman"
- - Venerable reference book from the UK
- - The "definitive record of the English language"
- - Subj. of the book "Treasure-House of the Language"
- - Subj. of the book "The Meaning of Everything"
- - Subj. of the 2003 book "The Meaning of Everything"
- - Subj. of Simon Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything"
- - Subj. of "The Professor and the Madman"
- - Set of Brit. tomes
- - Reference where you might find out that a philobat is used in psychoanalysis for a person who enjoys the challenge of coping alone with dangerous situations
- - Reference volume from the UK
- - Ref. work whose 2018 Word of the Year is "toxic"
- - Ref. work chronicled in "The Professor and the Madman"
- - Ref. work begun by the London Philological Society
- - Ref. whose 2015 Word of the Year is the "Face With Tears of Joy" emoji
- - Ref. that recently added the word "hoverboard"
- - Ref. that includes ROFL as of 2016
- - Ref. that added the word "anally" in 2010
- - Ref. of note
- - Ref. conceived of in 1857 by London's Philological Society
- - Of which A-Ant was pub. in Jan. 1884
- - ref. that added "deepfake" in 2023
- - A-to-zed ref. work
- - Meaningful work, for short?
- - Ref. that added "gaslighter" in 2022
- - ref. work that added "dylanesque" to its lexicon in 2018
- - ref. book whose third edition will only appear online
- - massive lexicon: abbr.
- - British dictionary: Abbr.
- - Ref. work started in 1857
- - "Non-fungible" was added to it in Dec. 2021
- - ref. whose second edition was dedicated to queen elizabeth ii
- - ref. work that added "freshperson" in 2021
- - brit. tome
- - uk reference work
- - british reference book, for short
- - British word-lover's reference: Abbr.
- - ref. that added "chapstick" in 2021
- - Alternative to Webster's, in brief
- - Multi-volume reference: Abbr.
- - British reference book: Abbr.
- - Multivolume British reference: Abbr.
- - British lexicon, a reference for wordsmiths: Abbr.
- - Wordsmith's reference: Abbr.
- - British book where you can look up words and their meanings: Abbr.
- - Its second edition had 21,730 pp.
- - Reference book that adds new words every year: Abbr.
- - Reference book for a wordsmith: Abbr.
- - Reference work whose first edition took decades to complete (Abbr.)
- - Multivolume reference book for wordsmiths: Abbr.
- - Ref. to which "adorkable" was introduced in 2020
- - Ref. work that took more than 70 years to complete
- - ref. that added gig economy and essential worker in 2021
- - Multivolume Brit. lexicon
- - Multivolume British reference work (Abbr.)
- - Where Boxing Day comes before Christmas, in brief?
- - Brit. lexicon
- - Wordsmith's ref.
- - Massive Brit. lexicon
- - Brit. word reference
- - 20-volume ref.
- - UK lexicon
- - Heavy ref.
- - Voluminous ref. work
- - Voluminous ref.
- - U.K. reference book
- - Noted Brit lexicon
- - Big ref.
- - 20-vol. reference
- - Voluminous ref. set
- - U.K. reference bk.
- - Respected ref. book
- - Multivolume Brit. reference
- - Major ref. work
- - Library ref.
- - Large British ref. book
- - Its first vol. was published in 1884
- - Etymologist's ref.
- - Brit. reference set
- - Brit. reference
- - Brit. ref. work
- - Brit. ref. book
- - 20-vol. lexicon
- - Work started by London's Philological Soc.
- - Where a Brit may find a def.
- - Venerable ref. work
- - UK reference book
- - UK reference
- - UK multi-volume ref. work
- - U.K. reference
- - Twenty-volume ref. work
- - Shelf-filling bks.
- - Ref. work whose Compact Edition is sold with a magnifying glass
- - Ref. staple
- - Ref. for wordsmiths
- - Online ref. since 2000
- - Multi-volume ref.
- - Multi-vol. lexicon
- - Massive ref. work
- - Massive ref.
- - Major ref. set
- - Its "Concise" version has more than 1,700 pgs.
- - It took 70 years to complete, in brief
- - Huge ref. work
- - Heavy ref. work
- - Classic ref. work
- - British ref. set
- - British ref. book
- - Brit. reference that added "uplink" in 2013
- - Brit. reference bk.
- - Authoritative ref.
- - Acronym for a world class dictionary
- - 20-vol. work
- - 20-vol. reference work
- - "Half-caf" was added to it in 2012
- - "Clickbait" was added to it in Sep. 2016
- - Work whose second edition contains 59 million wds.
- - Work that's been punningly called a "lex icon": Abbr.
- - Work requiring oversized shelves, briefly
- - Work containing more than 3.5 million citations, for short
- - Work containing about 2.5 million quotations: Abbr.
- - Wordy tome, for short
- - Word-lover's ref. book
- - Word ref. started in 1857
- - Wk. that begins with "A-Bazouki"
- - Where age always goes before beauty, briefly
- - Well-known dict.
- - Weighty ref. work
- - Webster's Third competitor, for short
- - Webster's relative, for short
- - Voluminous lexicological work: Abbr.
- - Voluminous British lexicological work (abbr.)
- - Venerable reference wk.
- - Venerable ref. set
- - Venerable ref. book
- - Venerable lexicon: Abbr.
- - Venerable British ref. set
- - UK word authority
- - U.K. wordsmith's ref.
- - U.K. ref. bk.
- - U.K. lexicological work
- - Twenty-volume ref. for writers
- - Twenty-vol. reference
- - Time magazine's "scholarly Everest," for short
- - Tell-all bk.: Brit.
- - Source with 600,000 words
- - Shelf-filling ref. work
- - Shak. is its most-quoted writer
- - Respected ref. work
- - Reference wk. that added "YOLO" in 2016
- - Ref. work with online subscriptions
- - Ref. work with more than 300,000 entries
- - Ref. work that took 70 years to complete
- - Ref. work that spans 21,730 pages
- - Ref. with quarterly online updates
- - Ref. with no substitute
- - Ref. with no proper nouns in its earliest edition
- - Ref. with more than 2 1/2 million quotations
- - Ref. with about 600,000 word-forms
- - Ref. with about 22,000 pages
- - Ref. whose last entry is "zyxt"
- - Ref. which added "starter marriage" and "starchitect" in 2016
- - Ref. updated quarterly
- - Ref. tome
- - Ref. that's gone through two editions in 125 years
- - Ref. that's been online since 2000
- - Ref. that uses British headword spellings
- - Ref. that took 70 years to complete
- - Ref. that recently added "locavore" and "phablet"
- - Ref. that has a zed section
- - Ref. that added "xoxo" in 2019
- - Ref. that added "safe space" in 2020
- - Ref. that added "cruciverbalist" (a person who does crosswords) in 2006
- - Ref. that added "binge-watch" in 2018
- - Ref. staple that used to come with a magnifying glass
- - Ref. shelf filler
- - Ref. section staple
- - Ref. room offering
- - Ref. last published in 1989
- - Ref. for Anglophones
- - Ref. book whose last print edition came out in 1989
- - Ref. book whose first edition took 68 years to complete
- - Ref. book that will probably never be printed again
- - Ref. book that comes with a magnifying glass
- - Publication whose first ed. took more than 70 years to complete
- - Pub. with over 300,000 entries
- - Philologists' work, for short
- - Philologist's ref.
- - Orthographer's ref.
- - Often-cited ref.
- - Oft-cited ref. book
- - Noted ref. work
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