Four hundred OED occurances, and no definition?

Yo!
The word is "noo."Simon Winchester, talking about the time of the OED's completion, in 1927: "One word-and only one word-was ever actually lost: bondmaid, which appears in Johnson's dictionary, was actually mislaid by Murray and was found, a stray without a home, long after the fascicle Battentlie-Bozzom had been published. It, and tens of thousands of words that had evolved or appeared during the forty-four years spent assembling the fascicles and their parent volumes, appeared in a supplement, which came out in 1933.

Four further supplements appeared between 1972 and 1986. In 1989, using the new abilities of the computer, Oxford University Press issued its fully integrated second edition, incorporating all the changes and additions of the supplements in twenty rather more slender volumes. To help boost sales in the late seventies a two- volume set in a much-reduced typeface was issued, a powerful magnifying glass included in every slip-case. Then came a CD- ROM, and not long afterward the great work was further adapted for use on-line.

A third edition, with a vast budget, was in the works." Etc., etc. ("The Professor and the Madman: a Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary," 1998.)

"Noo," however, is well older than 1927, or 1933, isn't it?

Couldn't find it in my Random House Unabridged either.

Neno
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