ALSO what’s with telling people the year of first use without any references to what that use was, there, @MerriamWebster. especially for one of two senses of a word! killing me here
Okay this one bothers me. (Also I see M-W and etymonline disagree about the first citation by 37 years, which makes them disagree about whether the "anecdotes, collectively" meaning came first
). It's a pun on "dotage", I guess, but it still bothers me!https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/1249155150079549441 …
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UPDATE: OED2 has an even EARLIER citation (1765) than MW (1798), and claims the pun-on-“dotage” usage was first (by John Wilkes) by 58 years! (Also TIL I have OED access through
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