Words on the Appeals List for the OED

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The follow words are being considered for addition into the Oxford English Dictionary. From the OED homepage: "Often these are slang or colloquial items which cannot be researched in specialist texts and are most likely to be turned up by a general reader in popular or non-specialized literature."

asteroid field : antedate 1980
bachelor pad : antedate 1976
back-to-back, adv. phr. (of parallel testing of two or more comparable items, esp. cars) : antedate 1983
curvy, a. (of woman or woman's figure) : antedate 1961
donor fatigue : antedate 1984
fell off (the back of) a lorry/truck : antedate 1973
the full monty : any evidence (esp. pre-1986)
full-on, adj. and adv. (all-out, unrestrained) : pre-1985 evidence in context
to give someone one (=sex) : antedate 1984
joined-up writing/handwriting : antedate 1983
made up (Liverpool, = happy) : any evidence
mouth almighty : any evidence
nul points : any evidence
politicking, vbl. n. : pre-1928
sulphate, v. intr. (to become sulphated) : interdate 1898-1982
termiting, n. (the extraction of termites for food) : any examples
tipitiwitchet, tippitiwitchet, etc. (US = Venus fly-trap) : interdate 1763-1940
to watch one's (or someone's) back : antedate 1974

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Letter to my sperm donor	Dalek	The creation of the EDB	Invisible pink unicorn
Parallels between the War Against Terrorism and the Cold War	fell off the back of the truck	Node for the Ages	Bachelor pad
Linguistics	OED	Slang	nice
Antedate	curvy	Sulphate

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