| aeroplane | intr., and trans. with it. To fly or travel in an aeroplane. Also trans.: to cross by aeroplane. Now rare. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| afters | The sweet course following the main course of a meal; pudding, dessert. Also with sing. concord. Cf. second n. 8. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| amplitudinous | Ample, capacious. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| Andine | = Andean adj. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| anti-serum | A serum containing a high level of antibodies, esp. one that can be used in the treatment of disease. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| arty-and-crafty | = arty-crafty adj. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| atoxyl | An organic arsenical compound (esp. as formerly used hypodermically in skin diseases). | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| auxetophone | A pneumatic recorder for a phonograph; also, a phonograph fitted with this recorder; an amplifying instrument. (Disused.) | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| Batavia | A kind of shot silk material. Also attrib. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| bedder | One who goes to bed. In collocations early bedder, late (go-to-) bedder. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| blockhouse | trans. To cut off from occupation or attack by a line of blockhouses under the blockhouse system. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| blockman | An assistant in a butcher's or fishmonger's shop employed chiefly at the block in cutting up meat, filleting fish, etc. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| Bloomsburian | A dweller in Bloomsbury, London; spec. = Bloomsburyite n. at Bloomsbury n. Derivatives. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| bolting | That bolts or runs to cover. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| bookable | That may be booked. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| Borstal | In full Borstal institution: a reformatory for ‘juvenile adults’, conducted according to… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| Bradenham | Applied attrib. to a dark, sweet-cured ham. Also ellipt. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| braking | The action of applying a brake (to a wheel); also attrib., as braking distance (see quot. 1950). | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| brilliantined | Dressed with brilliantine (sense 1). | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| Browning | Applied attrib. to various weapons ranging from pistols to machine-guns, esp. automatic ones, designed by Browning. Also ellipt. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| bull-dogged | Characteristic of or like that of a bull-dog. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| bullioned | Ornamented with bullion. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Burnsian | Of or relating to Burns, his works, or his style. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| caddy | intr. To act as caddy for a golfer. Also transf. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| Cadet | In Russian politics, a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| Catalanist | One who favours the independence of Catalonia; usually attrib. or as adj. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| catted | See cat v. 1. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| cerealist | One who advocates a cereal diet. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| Chamberlainization | The process of making or becoming Chamberlainic in political orientation. Cf. chamberlainizing n. Chamberlainism n. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| chamberlainizing | = Chamberlainization n. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| chanceless | Without giving or receiving a chance. In Cricket, without giving the fieldsmen a chance (see chance n. 4c). | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| char | Short for charwoman n. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| charmeuse | A soft smooth silk fabric, having a satin-like surface. Also attrib. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| Chestertonian | Of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the English author Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) or his writings. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| chicly | Stylishly. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| chicote | A long whip of leather or hide, having a wooden handle, used in the Congo, Portuguese Africa, and elsewhere. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| ciel | Sky-blue: a fashion shade. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| citification | The process or result of being citified. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| co-formulator | A formulator together with another or others. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| coiffure | trans. To dress (a woman's hair). Also transf. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| concertina | trans. and intr. To shut up like a concertina; to compress; to collapse; to wrinkle. Also fig. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| conciliatorily | In a conciliatory manner. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| congest | In Ireland, a tenant living on land of which the resources do not adequately support him. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| cornely | Designating, of, or relating to a type of chain-stitch embroidery machine with universal feed. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| counter-offensive | An offensive (instead of a defensive) action undertaken in response to a prior attack. Also fig. and attrib. or as adj. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| crabber | One who finds fault or criticizes adversely. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| Croix de Guerre | A French medal first awarded during the war of 1914 – 18 (see quot. 1922). | 1915 | Go To Quotation |
| Crusoe | One who is shipwrecked on a desert island. Also attrib. and Comb., as Crusoe life, Crusoe-like adj. and adv. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| dandydom | The condition of a dandy; the world of dandies. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| declutch | intr. To disengage the clutch of a motor vehicle. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| décolletée | The low-cut neck of a bodice. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| deep-waterman | A sea-going vessel as opposed to a coaster. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| demographical | = demographic adj. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| désaxé | Of the crankshaft of a motor-car: see quot. 1908. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| devastatingly | In a devastating manner; so as to devastate: freq. in trivial or hyperbolical use (cf. devastating adj.). | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| diamanté | Material to which a sparkling effect is given by the use of paste brilliants, powdered glass or crystal, etc. Also attrib. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| die-cast | trans. To make by casting hot metal in a die or mould. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| digestif | = digestive n. 1. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| diggy | Inclined to give sly digs. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| directivity | The quality or state of being directed by a vital force or power as distinguished from… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| divvy | Extremely pleasant, ‘divine’, ‘heavenly’. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| Dockland | A name, originally journalistic, for the districts about the London docks. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| dud | Counterfeit; failing to answer to its description or to perform its function; worn out; useless; unsatisfactory. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| Ethiopianism | An African nationalist movement in South Africa (see quot. 1961). | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| fanny | A tin for holding anything to be drunk; a mess-kettle. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| finney | Local name of finnan haddock. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| first-handedness | The quality or condition of being first-hand or of an original character. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| flagellomania | Enthusiasm for flogging. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| flake | A name under which dogfish is marketed for food. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| Flem | An abbreviation of Fleming n. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| flueless | Without a flue. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| flyless | Without flies. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| frontsman | A salesman who stands on the pavement in front of a shop. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| futurism | An art-movement, originating in Italy, characterized by violent departure from… | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| garage | trans. To place (a motor vehicle) in a garage for storage or repairs; to accommodate (a motor vehicle) at a garage. Also absol. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| gauzily | In a light, delicate manner; so as to resemble gauze. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| Girl Scout | A girl belonging to the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., an American organization… | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| Goss | Used attrib. to designate a kind of armorial china orig. manufactured by Goss. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| gramophone | trans. To reproduce by means of the gramophone; to record for the gramophone. Also fig. and absol. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| gramophonist | One who uses or operates a gramophone; a ‘gramophile’. (Not in current use.) | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| Grand Marnier | A French cognac-based liqueur. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| Grimaldi | Used attrib. of skeletons of the kind found in the Grimaldi Caves, as in Grimaldi skull. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| gun control | The control and handling of a firearm; a mechanism that controls the firing of a gun. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| hallful | As many or as much as will fill a hall. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| hard-and-fastness | The condition of being hard and fast; hard and fast character. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| harka | A body of Moroccan irregular troops. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| helped | That has been helped, aided, or assisted. Also with advs., as helped-out. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| higgle | The adjusting of prices so that demand and supply are equal. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| high-powered | Having great power or drive (lit. and fig.); forceful, energetic; of good or high quality. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| hospitalize | trans. To place or accommodate in a hospital. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| hummingly | With a humming sound. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| hurtness | The state of being hurt. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| Ido | An artificial language, based on Esperanto n., selected by the ‘Delegation for the Adoption… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| impersonalism | The character of being impersonal; the absence of personal contacts. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| incidentalist | One who describes or insists on what is merely incidental and not essential. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| intimism | (See quot. 1959.) | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| Japano- | used as combining form of Japanese adj. n., esp. in adjs. meaning ‘belonging to Japan (and some other country)’. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| jobmongering | The action or practice of a jobmonger; jobbery. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| Kahal | One of the former localized Jewish communities in Europe; also, the governing body of such a community. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| kalloscope | A type of stereoscope n. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| Kashrut | The body of Jewish religious laws relating to the fitness of food, and also of persons… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| Kerry | The name of a town and neighbouring range of hills in the county of Powys, on the… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| khatak | In Tibet (south-western China): a scarf presented to visitors. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| kinderspiel | A dramatic piece performed by children. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| kine- | Variant of cine- comb._form (reverting to the Greek initial κ). | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| la-la | intr. To sing or say the syllable la repeatedly, esp. in place of the words or notes of… | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| Lalique | Used attrib. and ellipt. to designate jewellery and decorative glassware by or after the manner of Lalique. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| let's pretend | A game of pretence or make-believe. Also attrib., transf., and fig. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| Leveresque | Characteristic of the novels of Charles Lever in matter or style. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| licenceless | Not possessing a licence. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| lino | abbrev. of Linotype n. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| lobster | One who bowls ‘lobs’ at cricket. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| lodgerdom | Lodgers collectively; the world of lodgers; a district in which lodgers are common. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| long-term | Lasting for, pertaining to, or involving a relatively long period of time; maturing… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| loppiness | The quality of being loppy or choppy. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| loverly | = lovely adj. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| lumpless | Having no lumps. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| malapropist | A person who commits a malapropism, or is given to committing malapropisms. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| Marconigram | A radiotelegram. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| mediocrat | A person who governs in a mediocracy. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| melchior | = nickel silver n. adj. at nickel n. adj. 1b(b). | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| miltz | The spleen of an animal. Cf. milt n. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| misdeclaration | The (usually deliberate) wrong declaration of an amount of goods, money, etc., in… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| misfield | A failure to gather or field the ball properly. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| misvaluation | The act or an instance of valuing falsely or wrongly. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| mnemic | Relating to, of the nature of, or involving mneme. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| monoplane | intr. To travel or fly in a monoplane. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| neuroticism | The condition or state of being neurotic; a tendency towards neurosis, esp. as a… | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| newspaperland | The world of newspapers; newspaperdom. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| Nipponian | = Nipponese adj. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| no-licence | Designating or relating to a stipulation or rule that no licence may be granted, esp. for… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| onychophagia | The action or habit of biting one's nails. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| open-end | = open-ended adj. (in various senses). | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| overbooking | The practice of making a booking for more of a commodity than is required or used; spec.… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| overbump | trans. Chiefly at Oxford and Cambridge Universities: to perform an overbump on (another boat). | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| overcrowdedness | The state or fact of being overcrowded. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| over-riches | Excessive wealth. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Celticism | The idea or principle of a union of all the Celtic peoples; belief in or advocacy of this principle. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Germanist | An advocate of pan-Germanism. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| paste-in | Pasted in; inserted or attached by pasting; (of a scrapbook, etc.) containing blank pages… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| patrolled | That is patrolled or provided with a patrol. Also fig. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| pedrail | A type of tractor or traction engine designed for passing over obstacles and rough terrain; (also) a wheel of such an engine. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| petrolless | Having no petrol. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| petticoat-wise | In the manner of a petticoat. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| picqueter | A person who arranges artificial flowers. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| piking | Pike-fishing. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| ping-pong | The game of table tennis. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| plinthed | Provided with a plinth; situated or placed on a plinth. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| poetaste | trans. To write (a work) in the manner of a poetaster. Also intr. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-Conqueror | Of or belonging to the period prior to the reign of William the Conqueror. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| prog | trans. = proctorize v. 1. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| proteolyse | trans. To break down (a protein or peptide) into smaller molecules; to subject to proteolysis. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| provocatrix | A female provoker. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| Prussianly | In a manner regarded as typically Prussian. | 1917 | Go To Quotation |
| psychotherapeutist | = psychotherapist n. at psychotherapy n. Derivatives. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| push-off | An act or the action of pushing off (in various senses); spec. the act of pushing… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| quirk | An inexperienced or trainee airman. | 1916 | Go To Quotation |
| radiophoto | = radiophotograph n. | 1915 | Go To Quotation |
| rahing | = hurrahing n. adj. at hurrah v. Derivatives. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| Randlord | A mining magnate or tycoon on the Rand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| reboiler | trans. To fit (a ship, a train, etc.) with a new boiler. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| redund | intr. To be redundant (redundant adj. 2). | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| repairableness | = repairability n. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| re-row | A second or further rowing of a race, etc. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| Romewardness | Tendency towards Roman Catholicism. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| Schopenhauer | The name of the German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860), used allusively… | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| scrapping | The action of ‘sending to the scrap-heap’. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| self-perfecting | = self-perfection n. 2. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| semi-rigid | Of an airship: having a flexible gas container to which is attached a stiffened keel or framework. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| shock-absorber | A device, esp. on a motor vehicle, aircraft undercarriage, etc., which serves to absorb mechanical shock and to damp vibration. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| sitter | A sitting-room. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| slackster | = slacker n. 2. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| squinny | A squint, glance. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| stalloy | (See quots.) | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| surnai | An Oriental variety of oboe. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| sweedle | trans. To swindle by wheedling. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| tac-au-tac | the return stroke after parrying with opposition: see quot. 1889 and riposte n. 1. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| taxi | Colloquial abbreviation, orig. of taximeter n., and hence, more usu., of taxi-cab n. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| taxi-cab | A cab for public hire, fitted with a taximeter; esp. an automobile or motor-cab so furnished. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| telos | End, purpose, ultimate object or aim. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| temeritous | Full of temerity; rash. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| terry | A colloquial abbreviation of territorial adj. n., applied to members of the Territorial Army; = terrier n. 3. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| teuf-teuf | An imitation of the repeated sound of gases escaping from the exhaust of a petrol engine.… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| tewfikose | A peculiar sugar found (1890 – 1) in the milk of the buffalo of the East, Bubalus Buffelus… | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| thrustful | Characterized by thrusting; energetic, pushful. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| tiddler | A feather or feather-brush for tickling; a ‘teaser’ or ‘tormenter’; a tickler. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| tipless | Characterized by absence of ‘tips’ or gratuities. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| tironic | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a tiro; betraying inexperience; amateurish. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| trasher | A person who trashes sugar-cane: see trash v. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| travelogue | An (illustrated) lecture about places and experiences encountered in the course of travel… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| trotteur | = trotter n.: see trotter skirt n. at trotter n. 2. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| trowel | trans. To spread, smooth, or dress (a surface) with or as with a trowel; to form or mould… | 1670 | Go To Quotation |
| trustify | trans. To make into a trust; to form a trust of or in (a business): see trust n. 7b. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| turpinite | An explosive, used in making shells. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| unspiked | (un- prefix 8; cf. spiked adj. 3a 3b.) | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| vicesimal | = vigesimal adj. Obs. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| visile | Responding most readily to visual sensations; thinking predominantly in visual images. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| wagedom | The economic system under which wage-earners live. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| walk-on | A part in which the performer is required merely to walk on and off, with little or no speaking. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| washer-up | One who washes up dishes. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
