Break through

For what appears to be the third time in getting on for three years, we have broken through the glass ceiling and made a combined score at Scrabble of more than 600.

BH went out, but I was just holding a 'U', so the penalty barely scratched my lead of more than 20. This victory being largely down to a fluky seven letter word attracting a bonus of 50 points, third row from the bottom. That is to say 'stoving' as in 'Secretary Putin admonished me for stoving in his last barrel of Rhenish with the butt of my Kalashnikov'.

At some point BH had put 'zit' down, starting in the second row from the top, a word which we have customarily allowed, but I must have been feeling lazy or kind when I last checked in OED. I check again today to be referred from 'zit' to 'sit', where I find that 'zit' was a 19th century dialect form of the infinitive of the verb 'sit' and listed under A.1.γ. So excluded. I might add that very nearly all the forms listed are very old and start with 's'. On the other hand, we are reminded of the Dutch form of the noun 'sit', also 'zit'. Where the noun might be used by a lady who was complaining to her maid of the bad sit of the folds of her party dress. In any event, clearly foreign and so excluded.

To be referred to the rules committee.

While my 'frump' is a perfectly respectable word considered as a noun, with various interesting usages, although considered as a verb it is flagged up as obsolete and so would have been excluded in the absence of the noun.

And while we are at it, I have also checked up on 'zip', another word at the margins, our dictionary having been compiled before the invention and naming of the zipper in the US in the early part of the twentieth century. Notwithstanding, the word is present in OED with different meanings - but is described as colloquial and is so excluded.

PS 1: I admit to having to look up in the table of abbreviations at the beginning what the numbers in the forms section were, to find that they refer to centuries: 1 for tenth and earlier, 2 for eleventh and so on.

PS 2: note that the form is 'seat' for horse, as in 'the hunting parson had a good seat on his handsome bay gelding'.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/03/fell-in-final-strait.html. The last occasion.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper. Where Zipper starts out as the name of a successful brand of boot - a sort with newly patented fastenings. So it might have, at that time, been considered a proper noun and been excluded on those grounds.