"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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| In article >,
| "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:
|
| > Dan wrote:
| >
| > >> anile
| > >
| > > my dictionary doesn't know that word.
| >
| > Really? From Merriam-Webster: "of or resembling a doddering old woman; esp.
| > senile."
|
| Really. But now I know a new word, one that my dictionary doesn't even
| know!
|
| [New Oxford American Dictionary]

My 1969 American Heritage College Edition has it: "of or like an old woman"

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