The Oxford dictionary of new words
By: edited by Elizabeth Knowles with Julia Elliott.
Contributors: Knowles, Elizabeth; Elliott, Julia.
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: English language -- New words -- Dictionaries
Other titles: New words
Description: Each entry explains the meaning of the world, and is illustrated by quotations mainly from newspapers, magazines and popular fiction. It gives the date of the earliest recorded usage, and describes how the word entered the language.