| actinotherapeutics | = actinotherapy n. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| aerodrome | A place where a balloon or flying machine is housed; a hangar. rare. Now disused. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| air-cool | trans. To cool (an engine, device, etc.) by means of a current of air. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| air cooling | The process of cooling something by means of a current of air. Also: the process of cooling air; air-conditioning. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| ammonal | A high explosive composed of three parts of ammonium nitrate and one part of aluminium. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| Anglophilia | Admiration of or friendship towards England (or Britain), its language, customs, etc. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| anthologer | = anthologist n. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| anticlimactic | Of the nature of an anticlimax. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| arpeggiated | Of a chord or series of chords: played or sung in arpeggio. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| art-and-crafty | = arty-crafty adj. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| asked | Mentioned as a request. Also asked-for. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| asterisked | Marked with an asterisk; printed with asterisks replacing omitted letters or words. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| Austenian | Of or pertaining to Jane Austen, novelist, 1775 – 1817, or her writings. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| autonomistic | Of, relating to, or characterized by autonomism; = autonomist adj. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| back-stabber | One who attacks unfairly, one who attacks (a person) behind his back. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| barminess | Weakness of intellect. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| Barum | = Barnstaple (Devon). Used attrib. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| basher | A straw hat, a boater. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| bâtonnier | The title of the doyen of the Bar of Paris and of Quebec. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| batsmanship | The batsman's art; the art of batting at cricket; batting performance. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| bedder | A bedroom. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| belatedly | In a belated manner. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| belay | A turn or fastening of a rope by belaying (see belay v. 5). Also attrib. and Comb. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| benefact | trans. To help or endow as a benefactor. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Berliozian | Of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869), French composer, or his music. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| biniou | The form of bagpipe used in Brittany. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| bi-party | Used attrib. = consisting of, or representing, two (political or other) parties. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Birrell | Used in various formations (see quots.) alluding to Birrell's easy and discursive style, his beliefs, etc. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| blossomry | Blossoms collectively. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| blousée | = blouse n. 3. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| blouson | A short jacket shaped like a blouse. Also attrib. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| bobbly | Jumpy, uneven; knobbly. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| bodyguarding | The action of working as a bodyguard; the protection of a dignitary, celebrity, etc., with bodyguards. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| bolo | A kind of cutlass used in the Philippine Islands for agricultural and domestic work and… | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| bom | The sound caused by the discharge of a gun, less deep and sonorous than a ‘boom’. Also, the sound of a heavy object falling. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| boomy | Having the noise or quality of a boom; = booming adj. 1. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| Bramling | A species of hop. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| brigandry | = brigandage n., brigandism n. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| Brodrick | A soldier enlisted under the lower standard of physique introduced under Brodrick's régime; more explicitly little Brodrick. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| brolga | The Australian native companion crane, Grus rubicunda. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| bromoil | In full bromoil process, a process in which pigment is applied to a bleached bromide… | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| bronchoscope | An instrument for inspecting the interior of the bronchi. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| Brownie | The proprietary name of a simple type of camera. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| bull | Short for bull's-eye n. 7; also, a shot hitting the bull's-eye. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| Bulli | Used (chiefly attrib.) to designate a type of soil used esp. for cricket pitches. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| bundly | Like a bundle. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| bunkering | The action of filling a ship's bunkers with coal or oil. Also attrib. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| burgheress | A female burgher. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| burred | Rough and prickly like a burr. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| Burton | The name of a town in Staffordshire (in full Burton-on-Trent) used attrib. and absol.… | 1738 | Go To Quotation |
| ca'canny | Moderation, caution; spec. the practice of ‘going slow’ at work; a deliberate policy of limiting output of work. Freq. attrib. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| candleless | Without a candle or candles. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| caper | Colloq. abbrev. of capercailye n. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| captaining | In Cricket, etc.: acting as the captain of a side. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| caravanner | A person who lives in or travels in a caravan (esp. on a pleasure tour). | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| cared | In comb. with prep., as cared-for, attended to, looked after; liked. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| Carrollese | Resembling, or characteristic of, the style of ‘Lewis Carroll’ (C. L. Dodgson (1832 –… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| carry-away | In Yachting, the breakage of a spar, rope, etc. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| carry-forward | A balance of money carried forward, esp. after providing for a dividend, reserves, etc. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| case-work | Social work carried out by the study of individual persons or groups. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| cavitate | intr. To form cavities or spaces in a fluid by the rapid whirling motion of a propeller. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| censorable | Subject to censoring; in need of censoring. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| chaack | The cry of the jackdaw. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| chack-chack | The cry of the fieldfare and wheatear. Also as v. Cf. chack v. and chack n. 3. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| chairoplane | A roundabout with seats suspended by chains, the riders being swung round in a wide circle by the revolution of the machinery. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| change-over | The action of handing over the baton to the next runner in a relay race. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| charmante | A silk fabric with a satin face and a heavy crêpe back. Also satin charmante. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| chetnik | A member of a guerrilla force in the Balkans. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| chiragh | A primitive oil lamp used in India and adjacent countries. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| choko | = chocho n. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| chypre | A heavy perfume based on sandalwood, perh. orig. from Cyprus. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| cinematograph | trans. To make a cinematographic record of. Now rare. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| citrous | Of or belonging to the genus Citrus. Cf. citrus n. 1. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| coat-tailed | Having coat-tails. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| cocainist | One addicted to the use of cocaine. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| co-head | A leader or principal conjointly with another or others. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| combativity | The quality or character of being combative. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| conck | The cry of the wild goose. Cf. cank n. at cank v. Derivatives. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| contango | trans. To pay contango on (stocks or shares); also absol. to obtain deferment of payment… | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| contractural | Erron. or non-standard form of contractual adj. (with intrusive r). | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| controllability | The quality or condition of being (easily) controllable. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| co-optive | = co-optative adj. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| corridored | Furnished with a corridor. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| corsetless | Without corsets or a corset. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| counter-espionage | Spying directed against an enemy's spy system. Cf. contre-espionnage n. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| cover | One who lives in a cove. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| crawlsome | Addicted to mean, worm-like behaviour. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| creative | The creative faculty; creative work; (Advertising) creative material produced for… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| crescendo | intr. To increase gradually in loudness or intensity. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| crosswise | Placed or running across; transverse. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| crunkle | intr. To make a harsh dry sound, as by grinding the jaws. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| culching | The practice of strewing an oyster bed with culch. Also attrib. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| cultual | Of or pertaining to a cult or organized religious worship. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| curvy | Having a curve or curves; full of curves, marked with curves. Comb., as curvy-brimmed adj. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| dangly | = dangling adj. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| darkling | = dark n. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| decadentism | The distinctive qualities or spirit of the decadent school in art, literature, and music; decadent behaviour or characteristics. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| decelerator | An apparatus for reducing the speed of an engine. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| deflator | One who or that which deflates. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| delint | trans. To remove the fibre from (cotton or similar seeds). | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| demi-vierge | A woman (esp. a young woman) of doubtful reputation or suspected unchastity, who is not… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| denaturant | A substance added to alcohol or other substances as a denaturing agent. (Cf. denature v. 2.) | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| deportee | One who is or has been deported; spec. in Indian use, = détenu n. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| detrainment | The action of discharging (persons, esp. troops) from a train, or of alighting from a train. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| devolutionist | One who believes in or advocates the principles of (political) devolution. Hence as adj. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| disconcertingly | In a disconcerting manner. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| disrelated | Unrelated; without relation or connection. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| dite | Phr. not to care a dit(e): not to care at all. Cf. doit n. 2. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| dividendless | Without dividends. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| dixie | An iron kettle or pot, used by soldiers for making tea or stew. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| djati | The teak tree, Tectona grandis. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| doonga | A flat-bottomed dug-out with a square sail. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| doubleton | In Whist and Bridge: two cards only of one suit, in a player's hand. Also, one card of a doubleton. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| downed | Covered or lined with down. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| downslope | /ˈdaʊnsləʊp/. A downward slope. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| Dreyfusard | A defender or supporter of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1859 – 1935), a Frenchman of Jewish… | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Dubliner | A native or inhabitant of Dublin. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| ducky | Sweet, pretty; fine, splendid. Chiefly in affected or familiar use. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| dumb-iron | A carriage-spring composed of two half-elliptic springs joined at the ends. In the chassis… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| dum-dum | In full dum-dum bullet: a metal-cased bullet with a soft core uncovered at the point, which expands on impact. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| Dundonian | A native or inhabitant of Dundee. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| dvornik | A house-porter. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| dynamotor | A combined electric motor and generator with one field magnet and two armatures, or… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| effervescingly | In an effervescing manner, sparklingly. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| electrophone | trans. To transmit (a speech, etc.) by means of the electrophone. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| emplane | trans. and intr. To take or go on board an aeroplane. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| enjoinder | Something imposed upon one, a duty, an obligation. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| éolienne | A fine dress fabric of silk and wool. Also attrib. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| equilibrator | A device for maintaining or restoring equilibrium, as in an aircraft, or between the… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| estrada | In the Brazilian rubber trade, a winding path or road connecting a series of trees. Also in French form estrade. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| exurban | Of or belonging to a district outside a city or town; suburban; spec. pertaining to, or characteristic of, an exurb. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| flashless | Emitting or producing no flash, esp. of gunpowder which ignites without flashing; without a flash (various senses). | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| fleetful | As many as would make a fleet; transf. a large number. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| flexing | The action of the verb flex v. Also transf. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| fluffed | Of a badly-played piece of music (cf. fluff v. 5d). | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| foolscapped | Furnished with a fool's cap. Also as past participle. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| foozled | Bungled; esp. of a stroke in Golf. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| founding | Associated with or marking the establishment of (something specified); that originated… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| frontally | By a frontal attack. Also fig. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| fuggle | A variety of hops. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| funiculaire | A funicular railway. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| genteelism | Genteel behaviour, attitudes or characteristics; spec. (see quot. 1926); also, a genteel word or expression; a genteel euphemism. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| Germanophily | Great admiration for Germany and its culture; support for German interests. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| Gethsemane | A scene of spiritual or mental anguish; an instance of such anguish. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| Giorgionesque | Resembling the style of the Italian painter Giorgione Barbarelli (1478 – 1510). | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| goggled | Equipped with or wearing goggles. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| goldfielder | One who works in a gold-field; a gold-miner. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| govey | hypocoristic forms of governess. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| gramophonic | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the gramophone or gramophone records. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| gravity-fed | Supplied with material by the action of gravity; utilizing a gravity feed. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| gustiness | The condition or quality of being gusty. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| gyro | (a) a mono-rail car or carriage which is balanced by means of gyroscopes driven at high… | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| Hamidian | Pertaining to or resembling the rule of Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey from 1876 to 1909. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| happen-so | A chance event. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| Harvey | To fit or supply (a ship) with armour-plates so treated. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| hatch-out | The action of hatching out; also, the brood hatched out. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| heavier-than-air | Designating a flying-machine whose weight is greater than the weight of the air… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| heckelphone | A baritone oboe. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| hermeneutist | ‘One versed in hermeneutics; an interpreter’ (Ogilvie 1882). | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| holeable | Of a stroke, esp. a putt: capable of sending the ball into the hole. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| Holland | The name of J. P. Holland (1840 – 1914), the designer of a class of submarines adopted… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| hopperings | Gravel retained in the hopper in gold- or diamond-washing. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| horse-mastership | Skill in managing horses. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| hydro-aeroplane | An aircraft designed to land on and take off from the water; a seaplane. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrograph | An instrument for transmitting sound under water and recording messages so received. Obs. rare. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| immunizing | The action of immunize v.; immunization. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| incorrectitude | The state of being in the wrong in one's conduct or opinions; incorrectness. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| in-curl | = inturn n. 4. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| industrialization | The process of industrializing or fact of being industrialized; also, the conversion of an organization into an industry. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| in-fieldsman | A fieldsman placed close to the wicket. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| in-rigger | A boat having the rowlocks formed in the gunwale. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| in-spawn | That is about to spawn. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| inswept | Of the frame of a motor vehicle: narrowed at the forward end or at the side. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| interlay | That which is intercalated; esp. in Printing. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| Ishmael | Proper name of the son of Abraham by Hagar; hence, allusively: An outcast; one ‘whose… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| Islamo- | Forming adjectives (and related nouns) with the sense ‘of, relating to, or in regard to Islam’. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| -itis | < Greek -ῖτις, properly forming the fem. of adjs. in -ίτης, but often used absolutely… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| Jixi | A two-seater taxi-cab licensed in 1926 while Sir William Joynson-Hicks (1865 – 1932) was Home Secretary. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| Juliet | see quot. 1957. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| kamish | The common reed, Phragmites communis. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| kanzu | A long white cotton or linen robe as worn by East African men. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| kaoliang | The Indian millet, Sorghum vulgare. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| keeshond | A grey, long-coated dog, a variety of the spitz, of medium size, with a fox-like… | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| kinder, kirche, küche | ‘Children, church, kitchen’; a phrase, freq. used ironically, to denote the interests and preoccupations of a housewife. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| Kitchener | used absol., attrib., or in the possessive to denote a man of Kitchener's imposing… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| knapsacked | Equipped with a knapsack. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| knived | Armed with a knife or knives. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| krypton | A rare inert gaseous element; atomic number 36; symbol Kr. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| laciness | Lace-like quality or effect. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| langeleik | An early Norwegian stringed instrument, resembling the zither. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| lightning | = lighten v. 6. Also fig. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| lilium | = lily n. 1. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| Linguaphone | The proprietary name of a language-teaching system based on the use of gramophone… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| linon | A trade-name for ‘lawn’. (In some mod. Dicts.) | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| Lippmann | Used attrib. with reference to a method of colour photography invented by Lippmann… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| lofting | Of a stroke in golf: that lofts. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| loggia'd | Provided with loggias. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| longliner | One who fishes with a long-line; a fishing vessel which uses longlines. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| lop | intr. Of water: To break in short lumpy waves. Cf. lopping adj. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| lubricational | Of, pertaining to, or for lubrication. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| ludo | A game, played with dice and counters on a special board. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Lumière | The name of the brothers Auguste (1862 – 1954) and Louis (1864 – 1948) Lumière… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| maffick | An act of mafficking. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| mannerize | trans. To cause (a person or thing) to adopt or become characterized by a mannerism… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| Marconism | The theory or practice of Marconi's system of radiotelegraphy. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| Marie Antoinette | attrib. Designating any of various styles of dress, decorative art, etc.… | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| matchboarded | Lined with matchboards; made of matchboard. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| melusine | A silky, long-haired felt, used for making hats. Also attrib. or as adj. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| metapsychic | That is beyond the sphere of ordinary psychology; relating to metapsychics. Also: paranormal, spiritual. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| météor | A kind of silk crêpe fabric backed with satin. rare. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| meticulousness | The quality of being meticulous; meticulosity, scrupulousness, punctiliousness. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| microbiologic | = microbiological adj. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| mitten-wise | In the manner of a mitten. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| monobloc | Made as, contained in, or involving a single casting or moulding. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| monomark | A combination of letters or figures or a mixture of the two used to identify an… | 1925 | Go To Quotation |
| Monroeism | The policy or principles set out in the Monroe doctrine (see Monroe doctrine n.); adoption… | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| Monroeist | An adherent of the Monroe doctrine. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| mopping-up | The action or an act of mopping up (in various senses); (Mil.) the action of… | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| mote | intr. Of a person: to travel in a motor vehicle. Of a motor vehicle: to move, go.… | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| motor bicycle | = motorcycle n. Cf. motorbike n. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| motor-boatist | A person who uses a motor boat. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| multiblade | Having more than two blades; = multibladed adj. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| multicore | Esp. of electric cable: having more than two cores. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| multi-cylindered | = multi-cylinder adj. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| multiplaned | Of an aircraft: having a number of wings or lifting surfaces. rare. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| murmurousness | A low continuous sound resembling murmuring. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| mutoscope | trans. To photograph (a moving object) for the purpose of viewing with a mutoscope; to exhibit (photographs) using a mutoscope. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| napping | Taking a nap, snoozing; characterized by taking naps. | 1649 | Go To Quotation |
| Newnhamite | A member of Newnham College, esp. a student or past graduate. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| niblick | trans. To hit with a niblick, or with a ball struck by a niblick. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| ninetyish | Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the 1890s; resembling or recalling the fashions… | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| nominatrix | A female nominator. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| non-racial | Not involving race, racial factors, or racial discrimination. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| nucloid | A ship of the British Naval Reserve manned with a nucleus crew (see nucleus n. 13a). | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| Nutter | A substitute for butter, made from the oil of nuts; nut butter. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| O'Brienite | An advocate or supporter of O'Brienism. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| observationally | By means of observation; with regard to observation. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| off-breaking | Of a ball: that breaks towards the leg side. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| Omarism | Admiration or imitation of Omar Khayyam; the cult of Omar Khayyam. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| on-drive | trans. To drive a ball delivered by (a bowler) to the on side. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| one-arm | Performed with, or using, only one arm. Also: having only one arm. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| one-shot | Achieved with or consisting of a single shot, stroke, attempt, etc.; occurring… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| osculable | That can be kissed. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| Oslerian | Of or relating to Osler or to his theories and methods of practising medicine (see quots.). | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| ottering | The practice of fishing with an otter (otter n. 5a). | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| ouch | intr. Originally: to utter an exclamation or sound represented by ‘ouch’. Now also: = hurt v. 8. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Ouidaesque | Characteristic or suggestive of the novels of ‘Ouida’; spec. (of a male… | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| out-curl | A turning motion given to a curling stone which causes it to curve to the left; = out-turn n. 3. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| outporter | A native or inhabitant of an outport (outport n. 1b). | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| overall | Including everything between the extreme points, measured from end to end. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| overballasting | The action of overballast v. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| overdog | = top dog n. at top n. 3a. Cf. underdog n. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| overnetting | Overfishing through excessive use of nets. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| overruff | An act of overtrumping. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| overspeeding | That travels too quickly; that exceeds a speed limit. Also: (of an engine) that turns… | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| ovovitellin | = vitellin n. 1. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| pacesetter | A person who or thing which sets the pace, rate, or standard to be achieved by others… | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| pailletted | Spangled; decorated with paillettes. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| pally | Having the qualities of a ‘pal’; friendly, companionable; on close friendly terms. Freq. in to be (also get, etc.) pally (with). | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Celt | An advocate of pan-Celticism. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| passengerless | That carries or contains no passengers; having no passengers. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| passive-resistant | = passive-resister n. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| pass-woman | At Oxford and Cambridge Universities: a female student who reads for and takes a pass… | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| penholder | A cylindrical rod or tube of wood, metal, plastic, etc., into which the nib of a pen may… | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| penny-wise-pound-foolishness | The quality of being penny-wise and pound-foolish. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| perpetratrix | = perpetratress n. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| petal | trans. To provide or scatter with petals. Also fig. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| petitionable | That allows, justifies, or involves the making of a petition. Freq. opposed to appealable adj. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| philatelically | In philatelic terms; as regards stamp collecting; by or with a stamp or stamps. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| photographable | Able to be photographed; (also) deserving to be photographed. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| photographophone | An instrument for recording and reproducing sound cinematographically. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| phut | intr. To make a brief plosive sound (see phut n.); to move or travel while making this sound. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| physio- | combining physiology and sociology. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| Piastraccia | A variety of white marble with thin grey veins. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| pigmenting | That colours with a pigment. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| pig-stick | An instance of pig-sticking; a wild-boar hunt. Also in extended use. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| pitch-hole | A hole containing pitch or bitumen. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| pluralizing | The action of pluralize v. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| plutocratizing | The action or process of rendering plutocratic. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| plutogogue | A spokesperson or apologist for the wealthy and their interests; a political agitator who appeals to the wealthy. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| plutogogy | Rule by the wealthy and their apologists. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| poetdom | The condition or status of a poet; the realm or world of poets. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| portmanteau | trans. To combine (two or more ideas, proposals, etc.); to combine elements and meanings of… | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| press-gang | trans. To forcibly enlist (a person) into military service. Also in extended use: to force (a person) to do something. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| Primrosery | = Primrosism n. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| programmatist | A person who draws up or follows a programme. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| prospectusless | Of a company or its shares: for which no prospectus has been issued. Now rare. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Prussianizer | A person who Prussianizes something. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| psephograph | A machine used for the automatic recording of votes. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| pull-in | The action or an act of pulling (something) in (in various senses). | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| push-push | Any of various vehicles propelled by pushing, esp. a type of rickshaw. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| qualmless | Having or feeling no qualms. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| ragged | Of a person: subjected to ragging (ragging n.), teasing, or scolding. | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| registrate | trans. = register v. (in various senses). Also fig. | 1570 | Go To Quotation |
| relegable | Capable of being relegated or referred (to something). | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| replay | Sport. A replayed match, esp. a knockout match played again because the original fixture ended in a draw. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| re-rubber | trans. To provide (a tyre, roller, etc.) with a new covering of rubber. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| Satanistic | Of or pertaining to the Satanists; adhering to Satanism (sense 3). | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| shereefa | The wife of a Moroccan shereef. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| shotman | A shooter. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| slushiness | The quality of being slushy. | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| smattery | Superficial; of a smattering character. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| sneakaway | One who makes off in a sneaking manner. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| sortie | intr. To make a sortie; to sally. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| spindlage | The number of spindles employed in a particular mill, district, trade, etc. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| spread-over | A system of distributing work or holidays over a period of time; spec. an arrangement by… | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| squawky | Of the voice: Loud and harsh; hoarsely squeaky. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| stand out | A workmen's strike. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| stem | trans. (See quot. 1903.) | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| Stepney | A spare wheel for a motor vehicle, comprising a ready-inflated tyre on a spokeless metal… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| sterisol | (See quot. 1898.) | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| sun-tan | Tanning or browning of the skin caused by exposure to the sun, esp. that acquired… | 1904 | Go To Quotation |
| Swaraj | Self-government (for India); the agitation in favour of this. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| Swat | = (and superseded by) Swati n. Also attrib. or as adj. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| synchronograph | An automatic recording telegraph worked by an alternating electric current, with… | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| taal | The Dutch word for language, speech (de Nederlandsche taal, the Netherlands or Dutch… | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| tackless | Having no tacks; made (as a sewn shoe) without tacks. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| tappable | Capable of being tapped or pierced for juice; fit for tapping. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| telephotal | = telephotographic adj. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| telephoto | = telephotographic adj. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| telephoty | The art or practice of reproducing pictures or views at a distance by means of… | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| tender | trans. To ship (mails, luggage, etc.) on board a tender. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| thorite | An explosive of the ammonium nitrate class. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| throw-away | A printed sheet or work not intended for preservation after it has been read; also attrib.… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| tipply | Apt to ‘tipple’ or tip over; unsteady; = tippy adj. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| Tobralco | The proprietary name of a type of cotton fabric. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| tonsilly | Affected by the tonsils. (Cf. throaty adj.) | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| topped | Struck, as a ball, in the upper half; in which the ball is so struck. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| Toryism | those of the British Tory party; Conservatism. | 1682 | Go To Quotation |
| townee | A townsman, esp. as distinguished from a member of the university (cf. towny n. 2); or… | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| tracked | Of a vehicle: having endless tracks (track n. 6d). | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| trans-channel | (Passing) across a channel, esp. across the English or Irish Channel; crossing the Channel. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| tri-dominium | The joint rule of three powers or states: applied to the former rule of Great… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| trudgen | In full trudgen stroke: applied to a kind of hand-over-hand or double over-arm breast-stroke in swimming: so trudgen swimmer. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| twiddly | Characterized by twiddling; freq. in Comb. twiddly bit, a fancy or intricate embellishment; a detail. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| unbusiness | (un- prefix 12b.) | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| under-consumption | Insufficient consumption; a demand for goods and services exceeded by supply or… | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| underspin | A backward spin on a ball while in motion. | 1901 | Go To Quotation |
| understaff | (under- prefix 5a(a).) | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| unenumerable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| unpushed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| unreconnoitred | (un- prefix 8.) | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| vacatable | That may be vacated; capable of becoming vacant. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| Victorianism | Victorian attitudes or style; (an example of) that which is characteristic of the Victorian era. | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| viscose | A viscid, orange or brown solution of sodium cellulose xanthate obtained by… | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| Vitaphone | A process of sound film recording in which the sound track is recorded on discs and… | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| washaway | The removal by flood of a portion of a hillside; the destruction of a portion of railway… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| Wellsian | Of, pertaining to, or resembling the ideas and writings of H. G. Wells, esp. in… | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| whinny | A thicket of whins or furze-bushes. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| wireless | intr. To send a message by wireless; = radio v. 2. Also fig. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| wireless telephone | A telephone used for radio-telephony; a telephone for communicating using radio waves… | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| worsenment | Occas. used in preference to worsement n. as a more analogical form. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
