In our continuing series on words of the decades, you’ll find a few surprises among a selection from the 1910s:

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Source: Oxford English Dictionary timelines (oed.com), including recorded citations

  1. I’m whacked, but I will still take the time to write this comment on how much fun this series is so far. It’s interesting to know when these words apparently appeared, at least in print, for the first time.

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