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Maybe the problem is that you're using the "Concise" rather than the "Unabridged" Oxford Dictionary
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I was considering the same possibility. Have you seen how much the full Oxford costs, though? I shall have to buy a copy from 1952 just to be able to afford it (mind you, not many good words have been coined since then, so it's probably just as good).
I now feel thoroughly humbled in the etymological stakes, so I shall pop off and fail to fill in the
Times crossword.