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The Professor and the Madman

Can you define it and tell usits history?

Can you define it and tell us
its history?

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Can you define it and tell us its history?
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7 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:10:25
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
biography, drama, history
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Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid-19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William M...
I'll make a fist of it, on the hoof, as it were. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
I'll make a fist of it, on the hoof, as it were.
Clever: adjective. Meaning - adroit, nimble, dextrous. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Clever: adjective. Meaning - adroit, nimble, dextrous.
With a "k", meaning sprightly or smart. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
With a "k", meaning sprightly or smart.
Mr. Murray is also a master of the Scottish clog dance. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
Mr. Murray is also a master of the Scottish clog dance.
It's all mine, Ada, the entire language. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
It's all mine, Ada, the entire language.
But it's so sudden. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
But it's so sudden.
Is it truly what you wish for all of us? - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Is it truly what you wish for all of us?
Ada, I'm an untutored linen draper's boy from Teviotdale... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Ada, I'm an untutored linen draper's boy from Tevi...
Now, suddenly, with a real crack at it. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Now, suddenly, with a real crack at it.
If I am to fashion a book, I'll need a spine. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
If I am to fashion a book, I'll need a spine.
Are we going somewhere? - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Are we going somewhere?
Yes, but his book comprised of only a mere handful of words. - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
Yes, but his book comprised of only a mere handful of words.
I am charged with identifying and defining every last word! - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
I am charged with identifying and defining every last word!
My dictionary will need as many volumes as these... - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
My dictionary will need as many volumes as these...
Never play with books, all right? That's wrong. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Never play with books, all right? That's wrong.
BRAYN Wednesday, April 17, 1872. Inmate number 742. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
BRAYN Wednesday, April 17, 1872. Inmate number 742.
American, 48 years old... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
American, 48 years old...
Surgeon, a captain in the United States Army. - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
Surgeon, a captain in the United States Army.
No known religion, classified a danger to others. - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
No known religion, classified a danger to others.
The prisoner is in a rage, spitting dozens of times... - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
The prisoner is in a rage, spitting dozens of times...