-tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found*
-tracing its transmission from one language to another
-analyzing it into its component parts
-identifying its cognates in other languages
-tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language

Debbie.

It didn't.

Brazil!

People actually pay for Amazon Prime Canada? Why?

Pictured:

Hitler's charred corpse is over the line for you?

Nothing Compares 2 Puce

Their boyfriends, obviously.

"Charred Corpse Obsidian"

"Huh. Looks more like chocolate gelato."

It's black and white, red and green.

"Late November Jack-O'-Lantern"

*Yves Klein sheds a single tear*

Fun fact: That door played the door in Friends. It's hard to tell because of all the prosthetics.

This is a very clever way to trick people into listening to garbage.

"Really?" —Don Draper

OED is the only dictionary that actually does first-usage stuff. Everyone else (including M-W) just uses their data.

While you're at the Merriam-Webster website, maybe look up "etymology" before using it in a headline on an article that has nothing to do with it.

Shouldn't have bought the cheapest faith glasses.