Dictionary wars, Oxford English Dictionary (OED) v. Mirriam Webster's (MW) Dictionary
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OED: ---------------------------- google, v. Cricket. intr. Of the ball: to have a ‘googly’ break and swerve. Of the bowler; to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball). Hence {sm}googler, a googly bowler. 1907 Badminton Mag. Sept. 289 The googlies that do not google. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 7/4 Mr. Lockhart, having ‘googled’ to no purpose from the ‘nursery’ end. 1923 Daily Mail 9 July 11 In R. H. Bettington they have a googler who might triumph over the best of wickets. 1928 Daily Tel. 12 June 19/2 Constantine..was out to a semi-yorker, which also ‘googled’. 1930 Ibid. 25 Apr. 8/5 Grimmett..can spin the ball and google it. ---------------------------- Google, v. 1. intr. To use the Google search engine to find information on the Internet. 1999 Re: Hi Guys! in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Oct., Has anyone Googled? www.google.com Ver ver [sic] clean and fast. 2003 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 14 Sept. (Seven Days section) 7/3 You can google all you want and there's nothing there on them. 2004 U.S. News & World Report 14 June 49/2 The couple found themselves Googling for a new place to live. 2. trans. To search for information about (a person or thing) using the Google search engine. 2000 Re: $Emergency_Number in NYC in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Jan., I've googled some keywords, and it came up with some other .edu text. 2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. III. 12/3, I met this woman last night at a party and I came right home and googled her. 2005 ‘BELLE DE JOUR’ Intimate Adventures of London Call Girl 115 Obsessing over the details, including Googling his name every few hours? Too right I did. ----------------------------
MW: ---------------------------- Main Entry: goo·gle Pronunciation: 'gü-g&l Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): goo·gled; goo·gling /-g(&-) li[ng]/ Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Google, trademark for a search engine : to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web
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MW: ---------------------------- Main Entry: 1ya·hoo Pronunciation: 'yA-(")hü, 'yä- Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural yahoos 1 capitalized : a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of humans 2 [influenced by 2yahoo] : a boorish, crass, or stupid person - ya·hoo·ism /-"i-z&m/ noun
OED: ---------------------------- yahoo, n. 1. A name invented by Swift in Gulliver's Travels for an imaginary race of brutes having the form of men; hence transf. and allusively, a human being of a degraded or bestial type. (Cf. HOUYHNHNM.) Freq. in mod. use, a person lacking cultivation or sensibility, a philistine; a lout, a hooligan. |