Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Today's OED antedating: "fixation"

Fixation, transferred, often jocular, obsession, ex psychiatry (sec 3 (b), first use cited 1963): Book titled The Mysterious Mickey Finn, by Elliot Paul, 1939, ch ix, p 86: "'Mr Evans has an oil fixation,' Miriam said. 'You’ll get used to that.'"