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J. R. R. Tolkien,. OED1 lexicographers Onions and Craigie as they worked on the 1933 Supplement,. But why onion, and not the humble tomato or the ubiquitous potato? Oliver traces the origin to "one CT Onions, a venerated 20th century

But in 1966, Oxford's senior lexicographer C.T. Onions suggested bug might be tied to "fly in the sense of 'familiar demon' Onions