In this update you’ll find evidence that the glitterball made its earliest recorded appearance by that name in an account of a dance given in Tasmania in 1924 and that glitter bombsare first mentioned in the late 1950s, but that the verb to glitter-bomb is apparently not attested until 2008. We see that vote-by-mailwas first recorded in the 1880s, webcamming is from the late 1990s (like its shortened form camming it is often used to refer specifically to the broadcast of sexual activity online), and that windmill refers to a type of underarm delivery in softball, first recorded in a reference to the ‘windmill windup’ of a pitcher with a ‘foghorn voice’ in an Oregon newspaper in 1912. Later, alphabetically and chronologically, you’ll find additions such as video tutorial (first recorded, well before YouTube was even thought of, in 1984) and virtual assistant programs and devices such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google’s Assistant are also represented in this update by new entries for personal digital assistant, voice assistant, and digital assistant.
New items early in the alphabet include amicus(a legal term denoting an impartial adviser to a court of law, or a third party not involved in a case who files a brief in support of one of the participants), amrita(the food of the gods in Indian mythology), and Anarchyused as a name for the period of civil war in England and Normandy during the reign of King Stephen in the twelfth century, first employed by the historian William Stubbs in 1876. This quarter’s update to OED includes nearly 700 newly researched and defined entries and senses, including additions to revised ranges of words including bias, card, carry, common, fastand slow, and feastand festival, and wide-ranging updates made across the alphabet. Oh my days! It’s the OED June 2021 update
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