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I think I'm going crazy........ neither taghairm nor mutt'on-thumper appear to be in my 13th edition! I've even cleaned my specs........

mutton-thumper is under mutton (why is it written as mutt'on in Chambers?)

But it ISN'T, Chris! honestly, it just isn't there!

My edition is 1999 - perhaps is has ceased to be?

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pz2ORay2HWoC&pg=RA2-PA1068&lpg=RA2-PA1068&dq=Chambers+mutton-thumper&source=bl&ots=FG3Zx8742-&sig=Mt4BhCxa7-dZggZRuJdTYWZV8Mo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A5rbU5T2NdHn7AbehYHADg&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Chambers%20mutton-thumper&f=false



(This is from an edition of similar age)

Mutton-thumper is even in the 1912 edition ( under mutton) between mutton-suet and muttony

and it's in my 12th edition

I am not buying a new Chambers if it does not have taghairm in it!
I think I have read somewhere that when a new edition comes out, some old, out of use words, are culled from the new one.

Taghairm is shown in Chambers 12th edition, betweem tagetes and tagine . So it mutton-thumper

how about "snudge" ?