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06-14-2007, 03:59 PM | #1 |
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Hobbit Vocabulary
I've recently re-read "The Hobbit" (it's one of my favorite books).
Every once in a while I came to a word that I did not know the meaning. Here is my list of words from "The Hobbit" that I did not know: Prosy - Dull; commonplace - arousing no interest, attention, curiosity or excitement. Porter - A dark beer resembling light stout, made from malt browned or charred by drying at a high temperature. Bewuthered - Appears to be a word unique to "The Hobbit". It's context would suggest it is synonymous with "Bewildered". Palpitating - To pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly. Flummoxed - Confused; Perplexed Bracken - Type of fern or an area overgrown with ferns and shrubs. Eyrie - The nest of a bird, such as an eagle, built on a cliff or other high place. Tuppence - A very small amount. Attercop - A type of spider or a peevish, ill-natured person. Tomnoddy - A fool or a dunce. Slowcoach - Someone who moves slowly; a "slowpoke" Turnkey - A person who has charge of the keys of a prison; jailer. Solemnities - State or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral. Mattocks - A digging tool with a flat blade set at right angles to the handle that can also be used as a weapon. |
06-14-2007, 04:01 PM | #2 |
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reading is the surest way to a large vocabulary. And Tolkien was a master language monger.
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06-14-2007, 04:26 PM | #3 |
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i enjoyed the books as well as the movies - i know you can't put everything into the movies though.
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06-15-2007, 12:21 AM | #4 |
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most of those are actual words. a few are particular to the shire
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06-15-2007, 01:28 AM | #5 |
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I liked the term 'second breakfast'. and elevenses, although again, I believe that's a term in common usage. I know some members of my family use it.
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06-15-2007, 02:29 AM | #6 |
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I should discover if a Spanish translation renders "second breakfast" as "desaydos."
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06-15-2007, 09:43 AM | #7 |
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How about Mathom, farthing, nob, and thain?
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06-15-2007, 10:15 AM | #8 |
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Clockwork Orange has some great words too; like "bezoomy" ...
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06-15-2007, 11:16 AM | #9 |
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There's even a glossary at the back of the book. Many of the words are bastardized Russian.
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06-15-2007, 11:17 AM | #10 |
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Yeah, it's like a Russian/cockney/gypsy creole slang.
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06-15-2007, 11:18 AM | #11 |
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Real horrorshow.
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06-15-2007, 11:22 AM | #12 |
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:::tolchoks your gulliver:::
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06-15-2007, 11:36 AM | #13 |
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I enjoyed all the books and am a big fan of LotR universe and I too enjoyed the buckets of new vocabulary dumped on me at the age of 13.
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06-15-2007, 11:42 AM | #14 |
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I just noticed your signature, freshness. I like that.
Reminds me of the Simpsons: "Marge, there's the truth , and there's the truth "
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06-15-2007, 12:44 PM | #15 | |
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I can buy porter less than a minute's walk from my flat. It is a specialist off licence though. Link to the incomparable The Offie. Btw tuppence for is simply a way of saying two pence, so it has a literal meaning, rather than just a small amount. I agree with Cloud though, nothing like a book to broaden your vocabulary.
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