Author: adindragonsbloom

Air-holes

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OED does not list “air-hole” as a variant spelling of “air hole”, but the example texts use the hyphen from the 1700s to the 1900s (and “airhole” as well)

  • 09.038 made a great fuss about his air-holes

“air hole, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.

After-supper

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  • 01.036 which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.

It must take a great deal of planning to work in all of one’s Hobbit meals.  If supper is some time after 8PM, I imagine that after-supper morsel would be what I call a bedtime snack.

Update 2017.09.05 – I was delightfully mistaken: after-supper is a proper name for a time of day, and OED says archaic.  I am reminded of another very important time of day.

“after-supper, n. and adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.