TY - GEN N2 - This dictionary features the entertaining histories behind hundreds of eponyms, such as bowdlerize (from the censorious Thomas Bowdler), bikini from the atoll, and the Salisbury steak, a dish of hamburger and brown gravy named after James H. Salisbury, an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef. There are hundreds more - discover to whom we owe the terms hooker, sideburn, zeppelin, the cardigan sweater, pamphlet, robot, and argyle socks. AB - This dictionary features the entertaining histories behind hundreds of eponyms, such as bowdlerize (from the censorious Thomas Bowdler), bikini from the atoll, and the Salisbury steak, a dish of hamburger and brown gravy named after James H. Salisbury, an English physician who promoted a diet of ground beef. There are hundreds more - discover to whom we owe the terms hooker, sideburn, zeppelin, the cardigan sweater, pamphlet, robot, and argyle socks. T1 - A new dictionary of eponyms DA - 1997. CY - New York : AU - Freeman, Morton S. CN - Oxford Reference Online CN - PE1596 PB - Oxford University Press, PP - New York : PY - 1997. ID - 838049 KW - English language KW - Names, Personal KW - Biography SN - 9780199891115 TI - A new dictionary of eponyms LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195093544.001.0001/acref-9780195093544 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195093544.001.0001/acref-9780195093544 ER -