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Hemingway and the OED
- The Hemingway Review
- University of Idaho Department of English
- Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2007
- pp. 105-113
- 10.1353/hem.2007.0010
- Article
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Abstract
The second print edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1989) shows 39 entries crediting Hemingway with a word's first use in English, citing dates, titles, and quotations. This note looks at the new words Hemingway has contributed to our language from "crut" to "whunk"; the foreign language borrowings he has given currency—such as bal musette, cojones, and tenente; and even the words reflecting Hemingway himself, such as "Hemingwayesque" and "Hemingwayan."
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