| aerobat | A flying machine. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| aerobatics | With sing. concord: aviation. Cf. aerobat n. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| audiphone | An instrument which, pressed against the upper teeth, enables the deaf to hear more distinctly. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| bed-ground | Ground on which cattle are bedded for the night. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| birotate | Two-wheeled. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| bosman | = bowsman n. Obs. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| bossism | The system in which political parties are controlled by ‘bosses’ or ‘wire-pullers’. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| bulby | Characterized by bulbs. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| bywater | A diamond of inferior water, yellowish in colour; also attrib. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| carbon copy | A copy of a document made by using carbon paper or carbon tissue. Abbreviated c.c. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| crevette | Cookery. A shrimp; a prawn, esp. one sold or served in its shell. Freq. in pl. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| disheritment | The act of disinheriting; = disheritance n. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| faggoteer | One who makes faggots. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| Gilbertian | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of W. S. Gilbert or his work; spec. resembling… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| lobstering | Catching lobsters. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| mine-hunting | U.S. The action of prospecting for mineral deposits. Obs. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| momie | More fully momie cloth. A commercial name for: any of various fabrics more or less… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Morrisian | Of, relating to, or resembling the work (esp. the decorative fabrics and wallpapers)… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| moth-wing | The wing of a moth. Originally allusively with reference to something fragile or evanescent… | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| nature morte | A still-life painting; still life as a genre. Also fig. and in extended use: a person… | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| neoterist | A proponent or adherent of new ideas, beliefs, or practices; (also) a coiner or user of… | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| Newfoundlandic | Of or relating to Newfoundland. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| nickel-plate | trans. To coat with a thin layer of nickel. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| Nile green | A pale bluish green colour supposedly resembling that of the Nile. Also as adj. Cf. eau-de-nil n. at eau n. d. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| non-contemporaneous | Not occurring at the same time; not of the same date or period. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| obstructionary | Tending to obstruct; deliberately causing obstruction. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| old-worldly | Characteristic or reminiscent of the old world (in either sense): (a)… | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| overclothed | Wearing too many clothes. Also: clothed too ostentatiously or elaborately. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| overcover | A thing which covers the outside of something; esp. the outermost cover of a book. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| panlogist | An adherent or advocate of panlogism. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| parvenudom | Parvenus collectively; the realm of parvenus. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| pentadic | Of the nature of a pentad; relating to or consisting of five people or things. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| pinkishness | A pink colour or tinge; = pinkiness n. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| pommes frites | Potato chips (see potato chip n. (a) at potato n. 2). Cf. French fries n. at French adj. n. 2. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| prelingual | Existing, occurring, or originating before the acquisition of speech or the development of language. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| profilograph | Originally: an instrument which automatically records the contour line of the ground over… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| protonym | The first person or thing of a certain name; something from which another person or thing takes its name. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| pseudoscientist | A proponent or practitioner of pseudoscience; a person who mistakenly or falsely claims to be a scientist. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| San Franciscan | A native or inhabitant of San Francisco in California, U.S.A. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| shellac | trans. To coat or varnish with shellac. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| sonnetary | Relating to, expressed in, sonnets. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| spaceward | Towards or in the direction of space (space n. 9). | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| stichometric | = stichometrical adj. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| tunket | Euphem. for hell; chiefly who (what, why, etc.) in tunket. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| tuque | A knitted stocking-cap tapered and closed at both ends, one end being tucked into the… | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| uplying | Situated or lying on elevated ground; upland. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| urbanist | An expert in urban life or urban areas; a town planner. Formerly also: †a person who prefers city life (obs.). | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| vocalise | A vocal passage consisting of a melody without words. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
